Very Interesting Deck by the Prolific Aaron Clauset (CU-Boulder & Santa Fe Institute)
Legal Complexity – Short Talk at Stanford CodeX Future Law ONLINE Conference 2021
Yesterday we presented our work in a Short Talk at the Annual Stanford CodeX Future Law Conference — our presentation was focused on “Complex Societies and the Growth of the Law” (as well as our new paper on measuring legal systems over time, at scale).
Here are the Papers that were Briefly Presented —
Daniel Martin Katz, Corinna Coupette, Janis Beckedorf & Dirk Hartung, Complex Societies and the Growth of the Law, 10 Scientific Reports 18737 (2020) < Nature Research >
Corinna Coupette, Janis Beckedorf, Dirk Hartung, Michael Bommarito, & Daniel Martin Katz, Measuring Law Over Time: A Network Analytical Framework with an Application to Statutes and Regulations in the United States and Germany (Under Review – Frontiers in Physics) < SSRN >
Problem Solving Experiments Reveal that People are More Likely to Consider Solutions that Add Features than Solutions that Remove Them (via Nature)
Interesting paper … when individuals evaluate the space of possible solutions, they systematically overlook the solutions which involve removing parts of a system. This may explain bloat in software, regulation, organizations which fail to innovate, etc.
ABSTRACT: “Improving objects, ideas or situations—whether a designer seeks to advance technology, a writer seeks to strengthen an argument or a manager seeks to encourage desired behaviour—requires a mental search for possible changes. We investigated whether people are as likely to consider changes that subtract components from an object, idea or situation as they are to consider changes that add new components. People typically consider a limited number of promising ideas in order to manage the cognitive burden of searching through all possible ideas, but this can lead them to accept adequate solutions without considering potentially superior alternatives. Here we show that people systematically default to searching for additive transformations, and consequently overlook subtractive transformations. Across eight experiments, participants were less likely to identify advantageous subtractive changes when the task did not (versus did) cue them to consider subtraction, when they had only one opportunity (versus several) to recognize the shortcomings of an additive search strategy or when they were under a higher (versus lower) cognitive load. Defaulting to searches for additive changes may be one reason that people struggle to mitigate overburdened schedules, institutional red tape and damaging effects on the planet.”
DAKSH Centre of Excellence for Law and Technology at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
Excited to advise the new DAKSH Centre of Excellence for Law and Technology at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
“The CoE will bring together lawyers, researchers, scientists and policy analysts to build solutions for the biggest challenges facing the justice system, drawing from fields such as operations research, data analytics, technology and law. As an interdisciplinary centre harnessing the strengths and experience of IIT Delhi and DAKSH, the CoE will leverage rigourous research to produce real-world impact in the functioning of the justice system. IIT Delhi brings to the CoE its expertise in statistical techniques, data modelling, natural language processing, and machine learning. DAKSH offers its pioneering use of data analytics to assist the judiciary and a deep understanding of judicial processes and the legal system.”
Usability for Multiple Personas: A Product Manager’s Mission – Inside the Engine Room with Kelly Marsh
This week I hosted the Elevate Together Podcast for our second ‘Inside the Engine Room’ Series with my Guest Kelly Marsh, Director of Product Development at Elevate Services. In this Podcast, we discuss Kelly’s PolyMath background which includes Mathematics, Law and Applied Technology. Next, we talk about Kelly’s career path in Big Law, Corporate Legal, at our startup aka LexPredict and now here at Elevate. Finally, we discuss Product Management and her work on supporting the various user personas in the Elevate ‘Manage Contracts’ ELM Module.
The Podcast is entitled – Usability for Multiple Personas: A Product Manager’s Mission. Check it Out HERE or on Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud or Spotify.
Bucerius Legal Tech Essentials 2021
SIGN UP FOR FREE — May 2021 — The 2021 Edition of Bucerius Legal Tech Essentials! https://techsummer.law-school.de/ – When we introduced Bucerius Legal Tech Essentials in 2020, we were overwhelmed by how many great lecturers and students (5000+) decided to join us. Not only was it the one of largest LegalTech Programs ever created, it was also incredibly intense, fun and engaging. It should come as no surprise that we are going for a version 2.0 in 2021. The program’s core remains the same: a free online educational experience with many of the lecturers that would normally be on our campus!
So Again Sign Up For Free and More Information to Follow !
Productization of Legal A.I. – Inside the Engine Room with Eric Detterman
This week I hosted the Elevate Together Podcast for our first ‘Inside the Engine Room’ Series with my Guest Eric Detterman, VP Data Engineering and Solutions at Elevate. In our wide ranging conversation, we talked about the path from Ad Hoc Machine Learning Projects to Building Enterprise Grade Products, thoughts on Tech Stacks, the Decomposition of Legal A.I. Products into their component parts (UI, Database, Workflow, Engine, etc.) as well key IT questions such as how to push and pull data with best in class API Infrastructure and Deployment (Docker, Kubernetes). Check it Out here or on Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud or Spotify.
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