Law Archives - Bommarito Consulting

Published On - 2014-07-27

mjbommar Consulting, Law, Machine Learning, ResearchTags: machine learning, prediction, supreme court, vote

Predicting the Supreme Court

One of the more exciting and public projects we’ve been working on lately has finally come to light – our Supreme Court prediction project with Dan Katz and Josh Blackman. This project is exactly what you’d expect – a framework for predicting the Supreme Court, though ...

Published On - 2014-06-03

mjbommar Consulting, Law, Research, SocietyTags: complexity, dataset, law, legal complexity

Featured in Wired: Measuring the Complexity of the Law

Thanks to Sam Arbesman (@arbesman) for featuring Dan and my paper, Measuring the Complexity of the Law: The United States Code, on his excellent Wired Science blog, the Social Dimension. You can read the article here, and, as a reminder, all of the code and data from the paper is available in this ...

Published On - 2014-05-19

mjbommar Cloud, Consulting, Infrastructure, LawTags: cloud, iaas, paas, saas, state and local tax, tax, taxation

Is there tax in the cloud?

Do you contract for IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS services like Amazon Web Services or SalesForce? Do you provide SaaS services like “cloud-based applications” or “web applications?” What state are you headquartered in? What states are your servers located in? What states are yo...

Published On - 2013-08-19

mjbommar Law, Programming, TechnologyTags: language, law, legal informatics, python, r, tax, tax code, visualization

Is the Tax Code the longest Title?

Last week, I shared that Dan Katz and I had finally published a draft of our paper, Measuring the Complexity of the Law: The U.S. Code. We’d previewed this research on Computational Legal Studies years ago. Since then, we’ve received great feedback and a number of questions. ...

Published On - 2013-08-13

mjbommar Law, Research, SocietyTags: complexity, computational legal studies, data, language, law, legal informatics, natural language processing, python, united states code

Measuring the Complexity of the Law: The U.S. Code

Four years ago, Dan Katz and I began working on a project to measure the complexity of the law. Its genesis was, in every sense, an accident; in order to properly identify citations to the IRC in our VTR empirical review of U.S. Tax Court decisions, we had to deal with the informal, non-Blue [&...

Published On - 2013-05-18

mjbommar Consulting, Law, TechnologyTags: finance, law, legal tech, reinvent law, talk, video

Law’s Future from Finance’s Past: Recorded Talk from Reinvent Law Silicon Valley

Back in March, I posted the slides to my talk at the Silicon Valley Reinvent Law event – Law’s Future from Finance’s Past. Last week, we posted the video online; you can watch below. Michael Bommarito – Law’s Future from Finance’s Past from ReInvent Law Channel on Vimeo....

Published On - 2013-03-08

mjbommar Consulting, Finance, LawTags: computational legal studies, finance, law, legal informatics

Slides from ReInvent Law Silicon Valley Talk

Live from ReInvent Law Silicon Valley, where I gave an Ignite-style talk drawing analogy to law’s future from finance’s past. Slides embedded below and video forthcoming:...

Published On - 2012-12-22

mjbommar Law, Programming, ResearchTags: data, law, legal informatics, nlp, python

Git Repository for Congressional Bill Statistics

After a nice twitter conversation this morning, I finally got the impetus to release the source for my Congressional Bill Statistics data. You can find the source at this Github repository. I haven’t taken the time to review licensing yet, but I won’t be asserting anything more t...

Published On - 2012-10-31

mjbommar Consulting, Law, TechnologyTags: eDiscovery, lecture, machine learning, ml, natural language processing, nlp, predictive coding

Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning for e-Discovery – Slides from guest lecture at MSU College of Law

Fellow Computational Legal Studies blogger and MSU law prof Dan Katz invited me to give an expert guest lecture for his e-Discovery seminar. This seminar, taught jointly with Professor Candeub, is an excellent example of MSU’s strategic pivot to deliver practical, 21st-century skills to...

Published On - 2012-10-09

mjbommar Cloud, Consulting, Law, Programming, TechnologyTags: aws, cloud, cloudsearch, eDiscovery, legal informatics, solr

Legal Informatics with AWS CloudSearch – Slides for tonight’s AWS Michigan meetup

Tonight, Eric and I will be presenting back-to-back talks at the AWS Michigan meetup (hosted by the Tech Brewery this time). Eric will be detailing a large Matlab HPC experiment we ran this summer to optimize parameters for a trading strategy; this one is a great AWS case study, as we crunch 10...