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18 Aug 2011, 3:40 pm
Sean McGrath of Proplyon has launched a new legal technology project: The NIEM EDemocracy Initiative (NEI).
The goal of NEI appears to be to develop “technological standards based on the” U.S. National Information Exchange Model (NIEM), as applied particularly to law-related e-government functions.
Mr. McGrath’s post entitled Bill Status – a low hanging fruit for NEIM eDemocracy? is now available.
Those interested in the project may join the NEI Google Group or visit the NEI Website.
Filed… [read post]
17 Jan 2010, 9:01 pm
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. -- Martin Luther King Jr. Gideon, a public defender, never one to be silent about things that matter, hosts Blawg Review #247 on MLK Day, a day of service in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. [read post]
17 Jan 2010, 10:28 pm
Professor Herbert M. Kritzer of the University of Minnesota Law School has published Empirical Legal Studies Before 1940: A Bibliographic Essay, 6 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 925 (2009). Here is the abstract:
“The modern empirical legal studies movement has well-known antecedents in the law and society and law and economics traditions of the latter half of the 20th century. Less well known is the body of empirical research on legal phenomena from the period prior to World War II. This… [read post]
4 May 2010, 12:31 pm
Helen Lippell and Peter Jordan, both of the U.K. Government’s Directgov online portal, have published The Metadata Model for Directgov, 10 Legal Information Management 7-9 (no. 1) (2010). Directgov provides access to a great deal of legal information. Here is the abstract:
Peter Jordan and Helen Lippell describe the role of metadata, including taxonomies, in re-designing the flagship government website, Directgov.
Filed under: Applications, Articles and papers Tagged: Directgov, egovernment, Helen… [read post]
29 Apr 2012, 9:02 am
A mobile version of Indian Kanoon, the free-access-to-law service for India, is now available, according to a new post by Dr. Sushant Sinha, creator of Indian Kanoon, in the Indian Kanoon forums.
Here is an excerpt from the post:
The Indian Kanoon website has a mobile version now. All pages are redesigned for fitting properly on small screen devices.
Tested on the android phone dell xcd35 and with various screen sizes in the android emulator. Feel free to report problems with your device. [...]
For… [read post]
14 May 2010, 11:37 am
Susan Nevelow Mart of the University of California Hastings College of Law has published The Relevance of Results Generated by Human Indexing and Computer Algorithms: A Study of West’s Headnotes and Key Numbers and LexisNexis’s Headnotes and Topics, 102 Law Library Journal No. 2, pages 221-249 (2010). Here is the abstract:
This article begins the investigation into the different ways results are generated in West’s “Custom Digest” and in LexisNexis’s “Search by Topic or Headnote” and… [read post]
27 Jan 2010, 12:35 pm
Michael James Bommarito II and Daniel Martin Katz, both of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Center for Study of Complex Systems, have posted the slides of their presentation entitled Building the U.S. Supreme Court Disposition Corpus 1791-2009, given at the University of Pennsylvania Computational Linguistics Lunch (CLunch) and the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) in January 2010.
The presentation describes the purposes, development, and attributes of the corpus, which includes disposition,… [read post]
22 May 2010, 5:42 pm
Dr. Tomasz Zurek of Maria Curie-Sklodowska University Institute of Computer Science, and Emil Kruk of Maria Curie-Sklodowska University Institute of Administration and Public Law, have published Legal Advisory System for the Agricultural Tax Law, in Business Information Systems Workshops: BIS 2009 International Workshops, Poznan, Poland, April 27-29, 2009, Revised Papers (2009).
The paper was originally presented at LIT 2009: The 2nd Workshop on Legal Informatics and Legal Information Technology,… [read post]
29 Mar 2010, 12:54 am
Lance Godard, who's been "helping lawyers tell their stories, one tweet at a time" for over a year now at 22 Tweets and @22twts on Twitter, has an especially engaging Blawg Review #257 on his blog "Are you writing this down?" Cube Grenade courtesy of Hugh MacLeod at Gapingvoid.com [read post]
2 Dec 2011, 2:45 pm
My new post entitled Openness and Interoperability: The Aims of Recent Legal Informatics Activity, is now available on Slaw.ca, the Canadian legal blog.
Filed under: Applications, Blogposts, Technology developments, Technology tools Tagged: Free access to law, Interoperability and legal information systems, Interoperability in legal information systems, Interoperability of legal information, Open access legal publishing, Public access to legal information, Slaw.ca [read post]
8 Jan 2012, 6:17 am
A panel on Artificial Intelligence: A Legal Perspective, was held 27 October 2011, at Stanford Law School, Stanford, California, USA. Click here for video of the panel.
The panel discussed many issues respecting artificial intelligence and law, including the legal agency and liability of AIs.
The panelists were Associate Dean Mary-Anne Williams of the University of Technology, Sydney Faculty of Engineering and IT; Professor Dr. Ian Kerr of the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law; Professor John O.… [read post]
22 Apr 2012, 8:34 am
The DGT Multilingual Translation Memory of the Acquis Communautaire: DGT-TM — a parallel corpus of all European Union legislation, called the Acquis Communautaire, translated into all 22 languages of the EU nations — has been expanded to include EU legislation from 2004-2010, according to an April 2012 announcement on the DGT-TM Website. The updated corpus is called DGT-TM-2011.
The new content comes from the EU Official Journal Series L, 2004-2010.
According to the announcement, DGT-TM-2011 is… [read post]
14 Jan 2012, 8:15 am
A call for participation — with registration deadline of 30 January 2012 — has been issued for the First Shared Task on Dependency Parsing of Legal Texts, part of SPLeT 2012: The “Semantic Processing of Legal Texts” Workshop, to be held 27 May 2012, in Istanbul, Turkey. (SPLeT 2012 is being held in conjunction with LREC-2012: The Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation.)
According to the call:
[T]he goal of the shared task at SPLeT 2012 is to provide common and… [read post]
18 Jun 2010, 10:32 pm
Jeremy Patrick of Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, has posted Beyond Case Reporters: Using Newspapers to Supplement the Legal-Historical Record (2010). Here is the abstract:
Judicial opinions selected for inclusion in case law reporters are only a small fraction of the universe of legal materials that may provide insight into the history of how legal concepts work in practice. This article examines a neglected source of information: newspaper archives, many of which are becoming available… [read post]
4 Mar 2013, 7:28 pm
Michael Lissner and Professor Dr. Brian Carver of University of California, Berkeley, have posted CourtListener: Where we are and where we’d like to go, at VoxPopuLII.
Here is an excerpt:
At CourtListener, we are making a free database of court opinions with the ultimate goal of providing the entire U.S. case-law corpus to the world for free and combining it with cutting-edge search and research tools. We–like most readers of this blog–believe that for justice to truly prevail, the… [read post]
31 Jan 2011, 5:30 pm
The unemployment rate in the U.S. is still above 9%, and from what the experts have been telling us, it will likely remain that way for some time to come. ... » [read post]
8 Mar 2011, 12:00 pm
Have you given any thought to hanging your own shingle lately? Here at Lawyerist, we continue to advise lawyers, both young and old, to start their own niche market law practices. However, in this Internet age where lawyers are being replaced by computers, the idea of hanging your own shingle doesn’t necessarily have to be [...]---------------------
Start Your Own Law Blog: A New Way of Hanging Your Own Shingle is a post from the law practice blog: Lawyerist [read post]
23 May 2010, 12:12 pm
Dr. Stefan Hoefler and Alexandra Bünzli, both of Universität Zürich Institut für Computerlinguistik, will present a paper entitled Controlling the Language of Statutes and Regulations for Semantic Processing (for the full text of the paper, click here for the conference proceedings in PDF and scroll down to the page numbered 8 ) at SPLeT 2010: The 3rd Workshop on Semantic Processing of Legal Texts, to be held 23 May 2010 in Malta.
The workshop is part of LREC 2010: The 7th International… [read post]
27 Feb 2010, 6:28 pm
Putting the Law Online, A Workshop about the Law.gov legal open government data project, will be held 2 April 2010 at Silicon Flatirons: A Center for Law, Technology, & Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado School of Law in Boulder, Colorado, USA.
Here is a description of the agenda:
At the April 2nd workshop, we will focus specifically on two questions of special relevance to the Silicon Flatirons and Colorado communities:
First, what does Law.Gov mean for state and local governments?… [read post]
4 Jan 2010, 9:36 pm
Dr. Nicole A. Vincent of the Delft University of Technology Philosophy Department, has published On the Relevance of Neuroscience to Criminal Responsibility, forthcoming in Criminal Law and Philosophy. Here is the abstract:
“Various authors debate the question of whether neuroscience is relevant to criminal responsibility. However, a plethora of different techniques and technologies, each with their own abilities and drawbacks, lurks beneath the label ‘neuroscience’; and in criminal law… [read post]