Blockchain, Crypto Infrastructure and the Transaction Cost View of Economic History — This is a course module available on BlockchainLawClass.com (check back for more over the coming weeks)
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Blockchain Law Class Website
(Website is now live … still in beta … content to be added each week)
Google launches Cloud AutoML to automatically build custom AI models (via Venture Beat)
The March of Machine Learning as a Service #MLaaS rolls on !
Crowdsourcing SCOTUS Paper Presentation at University of Minnesota Law School
The next leg of our SCOTUS Crowdsourcing Tour takes us to Minneapolis – for talk at the University of Minnesota Law School. Looking forward to it!
Crowdsourcing Accurately and Robustly Predicts Supreme Court Decisions – Professors Daniel Martin Katz, Michael Bommarito & Josh Blackman
Today Michael J Bommarito II and I were live in Ann Arbor at the University of Michigan Center for Political Studies to kickoff the tour for our #SCOTUS Crowd Prediction Paper — here is version 1.01 of the slide deck !
SCOTUS Crowdsourcing Paper Road Show (Presentation at University of Michigan Center for Political Studies / ISR)
Excited to take the show on the road next week where we will be presenting our SCOTUS Crowdsourcing Paper at University of Michigan Center for Political Studies and at the University of Minnesota Law School.
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Our SCOTUS Crowdsourcing Paper Featured in Augur Development Update
Excited that our paper was highlighted on the Augur Weekly Development Update – It is about #SCOTUS as a use case but the formalization is in the general form – with implications for #Crypto #Oracles #Crowdsourcing
Mike and I are pretty hot on Augur, Ethereum and their potential applications across a wide set of use cases – so we are happy to see this recognition of our work.
Wisdom of the Crowd Accurately Predicts Supreme Court Decisions (MIT Technology Review)
See coverage of our paper in MIT Technology Review and access paper on arXiv or SSRN
Workforce Implications of Machine Learning – Brynjolfsson + Mitchell in Science
Regarding the quote above — we agree. However, it should be noted that the ‘simple substitution story’ works at the aggregate level over a period of time with the simple assumption that the tasks which comprise current jobs can be decomposed and recombined into new jobs. Certainly, institutions (both firms and public sector) will take some period of time to be able to repackage certain existing jobs. Thus, lags are to be expected. < Click Here to Access the Article >
#LegalTech is a Global Phenomena – (see e.g. the Company Map from France and Germany)
LegalTech is a global phenomena – here is the company map from France above … and below is one from Germany
Law on the Market? Abnormal Stock Returns and Supreme Court Decision-Making (Updated SlideDeck)
Here is an updated slidedeck from the presentation at the UChicago Judicial Behavior Workshop.
Six New Videos Added to TheLawLabChannel.com
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LAW’S FUTURE FROM FINANCE’S PAST: WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?