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UnBlight Unconference 2014: Storify, links, and resources
UnBlight — “an unconference exploring technology, property data and community revitalization” — was held 14-15 August 2014 in Macon, Georgia, USA. The event was hosted by Mercer University’s Center for...
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Ramakrishna and Paschke: A Process for Knowledge Transformation and Knowledge...
Shashishekar Ramakrishna and Adrian Paschke presented a paper entitled A Process for Knowledge Transformation and Knowledge Representation of Patent Law, at RuleML 2014: International Web Rule...
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Zvenyach: The New Codification Movement
V. David Zvenyach gave a presentation entitled The New Codification Movement, 11 September 2014 for the MIT Legal Physics Research Team, led by Dazza Greenwood. Here are selected notes about the...
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Smith et al.: Legal Responsibility for the Acts of Others: A Logical Analysis
Clara Smith, Erica Calardo, Antonino Rotolo, and Giovanni Sartor presented a paper entitled Legal Responsibility for the Acts of Others: A Logical Analysis, at RuleML 2014: International Web Rule...
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Legal Citation Hackathon, 13 September 2014: Links and resources
Legal Citation Hackathon is scheduled to be held 13 September 2014 at Fastcase, in Washington, DC. The event is organized by DC Legal Hackers. Projects and datasets to be worked on at the hackathon are...
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Ramakrishna and Paschke: Semi-Automated Vocabulary Building for Structured...
Shashishekar Ramakrishna and Adrian Paschke presented a paper entitled Semi-Automated Vocabulary Building for Structured Legal English, at RuleML 2014: International Web Rule Symposium, held 18-20...
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Zvenyach: Coding for Lawyers
V. David Zvenyach has released a book entitled Coding for Lawyers. The book currently covers regular expressions, Markdown, HTML, data types, using arrays, and coding in Python. The GitHub repository...
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Legal Citation Hackathon, 13 September 2014: Results, storify, links, and...
Legal Citation Hackathon was held 13 September 2014 at Fastcase, in Washington, DC. The event was organized by DC Legal Hackers. Projects and datasets worked on at the hackathon are listed at:...
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Legal informatics papers at ICFIS 2014
A number of papers on legal informatics, legal data analysis, or legal information were presented at ICFIS 2014: International Conference on Forensic Inference and Statistics, held 19-22 August 2014 in...
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Legal transactional hackathon: Code the Deal: 19-21 September 2014, NYC
Code the Deal, a legal transactional hackathon, is scheduled to be held 19-21 September 2014, in New York City. The event is organized by Legal Hackers and Nixon Peabody. Here is a description, from...
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Katz and Bommarito: Measuring the Complexity of the Law: The United States Code
Daniel Martin Katz and Michael J. Bommarito II have published Measuring the Complexity of the Law: The United States Code, forthcoming in Artificial Intelligence and Law. A preprint of the paper is...
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Kuhlman: Legal Synonyms Project, and word cloud of U.S. Code
Casey Kuhlman of the U.S. Open Data Institute has posted a word cloud of the U.S. Code. Casey says the data are “actual word counts piped into a JQuery lib,” and that he is also working on “N grams and...
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Kimbro, Crosby, and Rooney on client relations in virtual law firms
Audio and a transcript have been posted of a discussion among Stephanie Kimbro, Michelle Crosby, and Fred Rooney on client relations in virtual law practice. The discussion was led by Stephanie Francis...
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Panel: Public Access to Law in a Rapidly Changing World, September 22, 2014,...
A panel entitled Bringing Law into the Light: Public Access to Law in a Rapidly Changing World is scheduled to be held 22 September 2014 in Washington, DC. The event is organized by the Advisory...
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GLOW 2014: Global Legislative Openness Week, 15-25 September 2014
GLOW 2014: Global Legislative Openness Week, is being held 15-25 September 2014 at many locations around the world, and online. Here is a description of the event, from the FAQ: GLOW is a celebration...
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Maharg: Technology in legal ethics scholarship and education
Paul Maharg of Australian National University has posted slides of a presentation entitled The wrong story: legal education, ethics and shared space regulation, given recently at the University of...
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Legal transactional hackathon: Code the Deal: 19-21 September 2014, NYC:...
Code the Deal, a legal transactional hackathon, is scheduled to be held 19-21 September 2014, in New York City. The event is organized by Legal Hackers and Nixon Peabody. Twitter hashtags for the event...
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Twitter Chat on Open Legislative Data, September 19, 2014, at 9:00 a.m. Eastern
A Twitter chat on the topic, “how to open your state and local legislature with open-source software, open data, and the help of the Free Law Founders,” is being held 19 September 2014, from 9:00 to...
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Storify: Twitter chat on open legislative data, 19 September 2014
A storify is available of a Twitter chat on the topic, “how to open your state and local legislature with open-source software, open data, and the help of the Free Law Founders,” held 19 September...
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PACER records to be restored, says U.S. federal courts spokesperson
The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts has told the Washington Post that the office will restore the records deleted from PACER earlier this summer, according to an article by Andrea Peterson....
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