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OpenGov Foundation receives Knight Foundation grant for online participatory...
The OpenGov Foundation announced yesterday that it had received a $750,000 USD grant from the Knight Foundation to “implement, test and refine an online and open process for creating new laws.” Here...
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Starger: New blog about the U.S. Supreme Court Mapping Project
Colin Starger of the University of Baltimore has opened a new blog about his U.S. Supreme Court Mapping Project, called In Progress. Here are excerpts from the first post: In the 10/20 Map of the Week,...
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ABA Commission on the Future of Legal Services seeks public comments on new...
The American Bar Association Commission on the Future of Legal Services seeks public comments on its new issues paper, entitled Issues Paper on the Future of Legal Services. The submission deadline is...
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USC Legal Tech Startup Weekend, November 7-9, 2014, Los Angeles: Links and...
USC Legal Tech Startup Weekend is being held 7-9 November 2014 at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law in Los Angeles, California, USA. The event Website is at:...
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UK Parliament Hackathon 2014: Results, links, and resources
UK Parliament Hack 2014, called Accountability Hack, was held 8-9 November 2014 at the National Audit Office in London. Results of the event, consisting of 19 projects, are listed at:...
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USC Legal Tech Startup Weekend, November 7-9, 2014, Los Angeles: Results,...
USC Legal Tech Startup Weekend was held 7-9 November 2014 at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law in Los Angeles, California, USA. Results of the event — consisting of four...
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MIT Legal PrototypeJam, 14-16 November 2014, Boston, Massachusetts
MIT Legal PrototypeJam is scheduled to be held 14-16 November 2014, at District Hall in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Here is a description of the event, from the event’s Webpage and blog: The MIT Human...
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Malik et al.: Predictive Visual Analytics for Community Policing and Law...
Abish Malik, Ross Maciejewski, Sherry Towers, Sean McCullough, and David Ebert are scheduled to present a paper entitled Proactive Spatiotemporal Resource Allocation and Predictive Visual Analytics for...
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Orozco: Democratizing the Law: Legal Crowdsourcing
David Orozco of Florida State University has posted Democratizing the Law: Legal Crowdsourcing (Lawsourcing) as a Means to Achieve Legal, Regulatory and Policy Objectives, on SSRN. Here is the...
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Storify: Discussion of open source for courts
An interesting discussion of open source software for courts took place on Twitter on 12-13 November 2014, and included contributions by John Mayer, Brian Carver, Ansel Halliburton, and Amy Wan. Click...
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MIT Legal PrototypeJam, 14-16 November 2014, Boston, Massachusetts: Links and...
MIT Legal PrototypeJam is being held 14-16 November 2014, at District Hall in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. The Webpage for the event is at: https://ecitizen.mit.edu/prototypejam The blog for the event...
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Colarusso: Beta release of new programming language for lawyers: QnA Markup;...
David Colarusso of Public Counsel Services has released a beta version of a new programming language for lawyers, called QnA Markup, and he welcomes comments on it. The project’s Website is at:...
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Čyras and Lachmayer: Toward Multidimensional Rule Visualizations
Vytautas Čyras and Friedrich Lachmayer have published Toward Multidimensional Rule Visualizations, in Michał Araszkiewic et al. (Eds.), Problems of Normativity, Rules and Rule-Following (Springer...
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Ceci: The Role of Argumentation Theory in the Logics of Judgements
Marcello Ceci of University College Cork has published The Role of Argumentation Theory in the Logics of Judgements, in Michał Araszkiewic et al. (Eds.), Problems of Normativity, Rules and...
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Land Matrix: Data and Visualizations Concerning Large Real Property Transactions
Land Matrix is a free and open database of large land transaction data, with visualization tools. Land Matrix is operated by a group of organizations including International Land Coalition and GIGA...
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The Good Law Hackathon: 22 November 2014, London: Links and resources
The Good Law Hackathon is being held 22 November 2014 at the UK Ministry of Justice in London. I think John Sheridan of The National Archives is organizing the event. The event appears to be associated...
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Katz and Bommarito: The Three Forms of (Legal) Prediction: Experts, Crowds...
Daniel Martin Katz and Michael Bommarito of Michigan State University and the ReInvent Law Lab have posted slides of their presentation entitled The Three Forms of (Legal) Prediction: Experts, Crowds...
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Englert et al.: Logical Limitations to Machine Ethics with Consequences to...
Matthias Englert, Sandra Siebert, and Martin Ziegler have posted Logical Limitations to Machine Ethics with Consequences to Lethal Autonomous Weapons. Here is the abstract: Lethal Autonomous Weapons...
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HiiL Innovating Justice Forum 2014: Results, storify, links, and resources
The Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law’s Innovating Justice Forum 2014 was held 25-26 November 2014 in The Hague. The Website for the event, with links to descriptions of the competing...
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Bennett: Legal Resource Registry
Frank Bennett of Nagoya University has launched Legal Resource Registry: An Open Archive of Law-Making Institutions and Publishing Channels. Here is a description of the registry, from its Website:...
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