Monthly Archives: March 2010

Alan Siegel: Let’s Simplify Legal Jargon [ Ted 2010 ]

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United States Supreme Court’s New Website — Still Far Below the Mark

The United States Supreme Court has recently launched its newly redesigned website.  Given the significant limitations associated with the prior website, this launch had been highly anticipated. Indeed, many had hoped for a website that would reflect well upon the Court. While … Continue reading

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Visualizing a Subset of the Tax Code – Capital Gains & Losses at Full Depth [Repost]

In our original post on Title 26, we displayed every subtitle of Title 26, A through K, down to the section level.  We did not, however, display the elements of the code below the section level.  For example, our prior visualization … Continue reading

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House Vote – H.R.3590 – How Did Your Representative Vote [Via NY Times]

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H.R. 4872 Word Cloud

With the passage of H.R. 4872 in the House last night, our previous research on the relative size of H.R. 3962 has been in high demand. While we are not yet prepared to run similar calculations for H.R. 4872, at … Continue reading

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Exploring Google Public Data Explorer – Internet Users Per 100, Mobile Cellular Subscriptions Per 100, etc. [1991-2007]

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Happy Birthday to Computational Legal Studies

On March 17, 2009 we offered our first post here at the Computational Legal Studies Blog. It has been an exciting and fun year.  Here are some of the highlights! (1) 3-Dimensional Hi Def Visualization of the Early United States Supreme … Continue reading

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New Paper Available on SSRN: A Profitable Trading and Risk Management Strategy Despite Transaction Cost

Readers might be interested in an article that A. Duran and I have coming out in Quantitative Finance this year entitled A Profitable Trading and Risk Management Strategy Despite Transaction Cost. In the article, we develop a strategy which outperforms … Continue reading

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160,000 Hours of C-Span Coverage at Your Finger Tips

As reported in the NY Times …  roughly 160,000 hours of C-SPAN coverage is going live for your consumption.  Yet another example that the Era of Big Data is upon us!

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The Big Short – Michael Lewis on 60 Minutes

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The Dissemination of Culture — Axelrod (1997) Model — Now Available on Netlogo’s Community Models Page

Robert Axelrod’s 1997 Culture Model is a complex systems classic.  Several versions of the model are available including one in Repast J. Perhaps the most user friendly version has recently been posted to Netlogo’s “community models” page. Those interested in experimenting with … Continue reading

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Complex Systems in the Social & Physical Sciences – By Bestiario [Repost]

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