Congrats to my good friend – Judge Ann Aiken and the other 2014 Legal Rebels! See her talk from ReInventLaw Silicon Valley 2013 here.
Month: August 2014
Author Mentoring Program @ 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence & Law (ICAIL 2015)
The International Association of Artificial Intelligence and Law (IAAIL) is offering a mentoring program for papers being submitted to its biennial ICAIL conference, the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law. The program is intended primarily for junior authors who have not previously published an Artificial Intelligence and Law paper at a conference or in a journal. If you would like help with your submission, you may ask for a mentor ― a person who will help you with your submission to the IAAIL audience through one-on-one advising, usually via e-mail. A mentor can also familiarize you with the standards and deadlines of ICAIL submissions. Mentors are volunteers familiar with successful submissions. To request a mentor, please contact us by the Mentoring Program Request Deadline.
Humanity’s Cultural History Captured in 5-Minute Film (via Science)
More coverage is here. This builds upon ideas that were expressed at the High Throughput Humanities track at the 2010 European Complex Systems Conference.
This Computer Program Can Predict 7 out of 10 Supreme Court Decisions (via Vox.com)
The story is here. Full form interview with Mike + Josh is here. (I unfortunately could not participate because I was teaching my ICPSR class). Our paper is available on SSRN and on the physics arXiv.
This is Law School? Socrates Takes a Back Seat to Business and Tech (via New York Times)
Nice coverage of our efforts at MSU Law to inject our students with important skills that can be competitive differentiator in this difficult legal marketplace. As Dan Rodriguez described it – one sweet spot for differentiation is located somewhere in and around “the law/business/technology interface.” I completely agree. While it is far from the only mission, there is arbitrage located in this sweet spot because many law schools do not have faculty with the appropriate technical skills necessary to teach in this space (see also a lack of desire/vision). This creates room for others. I outlined all of this in some detail in my Keynote Address at the Stanford CodeX Conference last year (and in the forthcoming paper called “The MIT School of Law“). As MSU Law Dean Joan Howarth said “[L]egal education has been stronger on tradition than innovation …. What we’re trying to do is educate lawyers for the future, not the past.” Well said! I joined the faculty at MSU three years ago with the goal doing the very things that are now up and running – however – there is always more to do – so stay tuned for more.