I've uploaded the slides for my talk today at the University of Houston Computational Law Conference. The purpose of the talk, in my own words, is: ... [to] present the set of frames through which I view the relationship between law and computation: "law as computation," "computation on law," and "law and computation." By distinguishing
What do you do with that unfinished paper? You know, the one that's 50% there but you don't have the time to finish. Or maybe it's the one that's 80% there, but you don't want to deal with the inevitable two years of revise-and-resubmit. This problem gets even harder when you decide to leave academia. I
When someone brings up the empirical study of legal citation, most people think of the work Landes & Posner and Epstein & Martin. If you're really cool, you might even think of Dan and me, who have spent quite awhile analyzing and visualizing Supreme Court citations like those in the 3D 1080p animation below: These studies, including
As I mentioned last week, I'm excited to give a keynote in two weeks on Law and Computation at the University of Houston Law Center alongside Stephen Wolfram, Carl Malamud, Seth Chandler, and my buddy Dan from CLS. The first part in my blog series leading up to this talk will focus on indexing and searching
Later this month, I'll be giving a keynote at a meeting on Law and Computation at the University of Houston. As part of the talk, I'm putting together an example of how I think machine learning and structured data can help build a better legal search engine. For the talk, I'll be building a subset
The chart says it all, with nuclear winning by two orders of magnitude (via ManyEyes).
Oops. Looks like the #anon member in charge of developing the BoA leak site may have outed himself through the Facebook App ID. Pull up the source from bankofamericasuck.com and you'll find this: <script> window.fbAsyncInit = function() { FB.init({appId: '174193262621648', status: true, cookie: true, xfbml: true}); }; (function()
Well, so much for that #march11 #Saudi day of rage. Whether it was really the "tempest in a teacup" that Prince Al-Waleed suggested on CNBC (video below, transcript here) or not, the oil complex and Saudi markets seem to have shrugged off much of the risk that was priced in after Thursday's rumors of shots.
Having spent more time than I'd like to recall in rooms with economists, political scientists, and law professors of various stripes and names, this Marginal Revolution post really formalized many of my feelings about current academic research agendae. That said, the critiques are all "in-the-box" and fairly benign relative to something like "your building-block models
Thanks to Sam Arbesman yesterday for pointing out that Kevin Kelly thinks the blog Dan and I run, Compuational Legal Studies, is a "signpost of the future." We were probably a few years early with some of our ideas and methods, but hey, an innovator's born to innovate, right?
