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Predicting the Supreme Court

Author: Michael BommaritoOn: Jul 27Categories: Consulting, Law, Machine Learning, Research No Comments

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...

Featured in Wired: Measuring the Complexity of the Law

Author: Michael BommaritoOn: Jun 03Categories: Consulting, Law, Research, Society No Comments

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...

Is there tax in the cloud?

Author: Michael BommaritoOn: May 19Categories: Cloud, Consulting, Infrastructure, Law No Comments

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...

Is the Tax Code the longest Title?

Author: Michael BommaritoOn: Aug 19Categories: Law, Programming, Technology No Comments

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...

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

Author: Michael BommaritoOn: Aug 13Categories: Law, Research, Society No Comments

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,...

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

Author: Michael BommaritoOn: May 18Categories: Consulting, Law, Technology No Comments

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...

Slides from ReInvent Law Silicon Valley Talk

Author: Michael BommaritoOn: Mar 08Categories: Consulting, Finance, Law No Comments

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:

Git Repository for Congressional Bill Statistics

Author: Michael BommaritoOn: Dec 22Categories: Law, Programming, Research No Comments

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,...

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

Author: Michael BommaritoOn: Oct 31Categories: Consulting, Law, Technology No Comments

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...

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

Author: Michael BommaritoOn: Oct 09Categories: Cloud, Consulting, Law, Programming, Technology 1 Comment

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...

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