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Legal Informatics – Cambridge University Press (2021)

December 10, 2020December 11, 2020 Daniel Katz

We are very pleased to announce pre-orders for “Legal Informatics” (Cambridge University Press – (Coming in early 2021) are now available on Amazon / Cambridge. Our book is designed to be an introduction to the academic discipline underlying the economic and technological transformation of the legal industry. Legal Informatics features contributions from more than two dozen academic and industry experts, chapters cover the history and principles of legal informatics and background technical concepts – including natural language processing and distributed ledger technology. The volume also presents real-world case studies that offer important insights into document review, due diligence, compliance, case prediction, billing, negotiation and settlement, contracting, patent management, legal research, and online dispute resolution. It is hardbound book ~600 pages in length.

#LegalInformatics #LegalTech #LegalInnovation #MachineLearning #NetworkScience #NLP #LegalScience

Richard Susskind – Alexander Lecture 2020: The Future of Dispute Resolution

November 30, 2020December 10, 2020 Daniel Katz

Fin (Legal) Tech – Bucerius Legal Technology Lecture Series (from 2017)

November 9, 2020November 9, 2020 Daniel Katz

Lots has happened in the past three years in the Law ∩ Finance space … but here is my 2017 talk that I gave at Bucerius Law School.

The Dos and Don’ts of Transitioning to Virtual: A Case Study on a Legal Institution’s Successful Response to Covid-19

October 1, 2020October 1, 2020 Daniel Katz

Dirk Hartung and I sat down with David Perla (Co-Chief Operating Officer of Burford Capital) to discuss “The Dos and Don’ts of Transitioning to Virtual: A Case Study on a Legal Institution’s Successful Response to Covid-19” in the Context of Bucerius Legal Tech Essentials.

Introductory Pre Session of the Bucerius Legal Tech Essentials

June 26, 2020September 9, 2020 Daniel Katz

Yesterday we had our Introductory Pre Session of the Bucerius Legal Tech Essentials … the video for our intro session in now available on YouTube (see video above).

The official first session begins in earnest Monday June 29th Noon US Central / 700pm CEST. It is not too late to join us if you still want to sign up for FREE — https://techsummer.law-school.de/

And the conversation continues at #BuceriusLegalTech …

See you on Monday !

Bucerius Legal Tech Essentials – Are You Ready?

June 24, 2020September 9, 2020 Daniel Katz

ARE YOU READY? Bucerius Legal Tech Essentials starts this week with our Intro Session on Thursday (regular sessions begin on Monday June 29th) … Over 3200+ Participants from 90+ Countries and the Conversation continues at #BuceriusLegalTech …

You can still Sign up today for FREE — https://techsummer.law-school.de/

Thanks as always to Baker McKenzie for Sponsoring and thank you to our global academic and organizational partners (Stanford CodeX, Chicago Kent & European Legal Technology Association) !

Dirk Hartung and I also would like to also thank our Confirmed Lecturers — Roland Vogl Janis Beckedorf Alma Asay Liam Brown David Perla Daniel W. Linna Jr. Gloria Sanchez J.B. Ruhl How Khang Lim William Henderson Corinna Coupette Shannon Salter Richard Susskind Markus Hartung Mary O’Carroll Daniel B. Rodriguez Mari Sako John Duggan Lucy Endel Bassli Riikka Koulu David Cambria Valérie Saintot …

#legaltech #legalinnovation #legalops #lawschool #legaleducation #law #makelawbetter #legalai #legalprofession

Introduction to Legal Technology & Innovation Course at Illinois Tech – Chicago Kent College of Law

April 7, 2020September 9, 2020 Daniel Katz

In the past week (and weekend) I have taught classes via Zoom for my school (Illinois Tech – Chicago Kent – shown below) as well as University of Toronto Law and IE Law in Spain (early this morning) … Thanks to Chicago Kent Alums – Jason Dirkx (Littler Mendelson) and Amy Monaghan (Perkins Coie) for joining us in the virtual class!

Delivering the Opening Keynote at the CLOC London 2020 Conference

January 20, 2020September 9, 2020 Daniel Katz

It was my pleasure to deliver the opening keynote address at London CLOC 2020 ! #LegalTech #LegalData #LegalInnovation #LegalOps

Computational Law at MIT Media Lab

December 17, 2019September 9, 2020 Daniel Katz

Exciting day here at MIT Media Lab … thanks to Dazza Greenwood for hosting me … looking forward to future collaborations including the MIT Computational Law Report! It was particularly cool as I did author a paper called “The MIT School of Law” …
#ComputationalLaw #AI #Engineering #Computation #Science #Governance

Professor Katz Presentation at the AI4Law Workshop at University of Oxford Faculty of Law

November 6, 2019September 9, 2020 Daniel Katz

Fun day today here in Oxford and this afternoon I had the pleasure of giving a Lecture in the AI4Law Workshop at University of Oxford Faculty of Law — thanks to all off the participants and my hosts Mari Sako, John Armour & Richard Parnham #LegalAI #AI4Law #LegalTech #LegalInnovation

Thomson Reuters Tech & Procurement Conference 2019

November 5, 2019September 9, 2020 Daniel Katz

Today I am kicking off the 2019 Thomson Reuters Tech & Procurement Conference here in London. Thanks to our Chairs – Vincent Cordo, Jr. Claire O’Brien as well as Sarah Wells for a great day! #LegalInnovation #LegalTech #AIforLaw #LegalData #LegalProcurement

Maastricht Law & Tech Lab Kickoff Event

October 18, 2019September 9, 2020 Daniel Katz

On the final leg of my European Visit, I was honored to participate in kickoff event for the new Maastricht Law & Tech Lab here at the St. Jan Church – today I talked about the {Past, Present & Future of NLP & Law} here at Maastricht University. Thanks to Gijs van Dijck Catalina Goanta Constanta Rosca and others from Maastricht for organizing the event! legaltech #legalinnovation #legaldata #AlforLaw

Professor Katz Presents “AI, Digitization and Digital Strategy for Law Departments” at European Central Bank

October 17, 2019September 9, 2020 Daniel Katz

Today I spent the day at the European Central Bank here in Frankfurt and discussed AI, Digitization and the impact on law … thanks to Valérie Saintot 🇪🇺and her colleagues for hosting ! #LegalInnovation #LegalTech #Digitization #FinLegalTech #fintech #ai #law

Legal Data Science Research Group at Bucerius Law School

October 15, 2019September 9, 2020 Daniel Katz

Spent the past few days here in Hamburg working with our multi-institutional scientific research team (Bucerius Law, Max Planck Institute, Chicago Kent Law, Heidelberg Law) … culminating in our presentation to the Bucerius Law Faculty today ! cc: Dirk Hartung Corinna Coupette Janis Beckedorf #legalinnovation #makelawbetter #legaltech #methods #legaldata #science #datascience #networkscience

Professor Katz Presentation at the International Financial Corporation – IFC (World Bank Group)

September 17, 2019September 9, 2020 Daniel Katz

It was my pleasure to speak today at the International Financial Corporation – IFC (World Bank Group). Let’s #MakeLawBetter ! #legalinnovation #legaltech

Daniel Martin Katz, Ron Dolin & Michael Bommarito, Legal Informatics, Cambridge University Press (2021) (Edited Volume) < Cambridge >

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, 9 Front. Phys. 658463 (2021) < Frontiers in Physics > < Supplemental Material >

Daniel Martin Katz, Legal Innovation (Book Forward) in Mapping Legal Innovation: Trends and Perspectives (Springer) (Antoine Masson & Gavin Robinson, eds.) (2021) < Springer >

Michael Bommarito, Daniel Martin Katz & Eric Detterman, LexNLP: Natural Language Processing and Information Extraction For Legal and Regulatory Texts in Research Handbook on Big Data Law (Edward Elgar Press) (Roland Vogl, ed.) (2021) < Edward Elgar > < Github > < SSRN > < arXiv >

Daniel Martin Katz, Corinna Coupette, Janis Beckedorf & Dirk Hartung, Complex Societies and the Growth of the Law, 10 Scientific Reports 18737 (2020) < Nature Research > < Supplemental Material >

Edward D. Lee, Daniel Martin Katz, Michael J. Bommarito II, Paul Ginsparg, Sensitivity of Collective Outcomes Identifies Pivotal Components, 17 Journal of the Royal Society Interface 167 (2020) < Journal of the Royal Society Interface > < Supplemental Material >

Michael Bommarito, Daniel Martin Katz & Eric Detterman, OpenEDGAR: Open Source Software for SEC EDGAR Analysis, MIT Computational Law Report (2020) < MIT Law > < Github >

J.B. Ruhl & Daniel Martin Katz, Mapping the Law with Artificial Intelligence in Law of Artificial Intelligence and Smart Machines (ABA Press) (2019) < ABA Press >

J.B. Ruhl & Daniel Martin Katz, Harnessing the Complexity of Legal Systems for Governing Global Challenges in Global Challenges, Governance, and Complexity (Edward Elgar) (2019) < Edward Elgar >

J.B. Ruhl & Daniel Martin Katz, Mapping Law’s Complexity with ‘Legal Maps’ in Complexity Theory and Law: Mapping an Emergent Jurisprudence (Taylor & Francis) (2018) < Taylor & Francis >

Michael Bommarito & Daniel Martin Katz, Measuring and Modeling the U.S. Regulatory Ecosystem, 168 Journal of Statistical Physics 1125 (2017) < J Stat Phys >

Daniel Martin Katz, Michael Bommarito & Josh Blackman, A General Approach for Predicting the Behavior of the Supreme Court of the United States, PLoS ONE 12(4): e0174698 (2017) < PLoS One >

J.B. Ruhl, Daniel Martin Katz & Michael Bommarito, Harnessing Legal Complexity, 355 Science 1377 (2017) < Science >

J.B. Ruhl & Daniel Martin Katz, Measuring, Monitoring, and Managing Legal Complexity, 101 Iowa Law Review 191 (2015) < SSRN >

Paul Lippe, Daniel Martin Katz & Dan Jackson, Legal by Design: A New Paradigm for Handling Complexity in Banking Regulation and Elsewhere in Law, 93 Oregon Law Review 831 (2015) < SSRN >

Paul Lippe, Jan Putnis, Daniel Martin Katz & Ian Hurst, How Smart Resolution Planning Can Help Banks Improve Profitability And Reduce Risk, Banking Perspective Quarterly (2015) < SSRN >

Daniel Martin Katz, The MIT School of Law? A Perspective on Legal Education in the 21st Century, Illinois Law Review 1431 (2014) < SSRN > < Slides >

Daniel Martin Katz & Michael Bommarito, Measuring the Complexity of the Law: The United States Code, 22 Journal of Artificial Intelligence & Law 1 (2014) < Springer > < SSRN >

Daniel Martin Katz, Quantitative Legal Prediction – or – How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Start Preparing for the Data Driven Future of the Legal Services Industry, 62 Emory Law Journal 909 (2013) < SSRN >

Daniel Martin Katz, Joshua Gubler, Jon Zelner, Michael Bommarito, Eric Provins & Eitan Ingall, Reproduction of Hierarchy? A Social Network Analysis of the American Law Professoriate, 61 Journal of Legal Education 76 (2011) < SSRN >

Michael Bommarito, Daniel Martin Katz & Jillian Isaacs-See, An Empirical Survey of the Written Decisions of the United States Tax Court (1990-2008), 30 Virginia Tax Review 523 (2011) < SSRN >

Daniel Martin Katz, Michael Bommarito, Juile Seaman, Adam Candeub, Eugene Agichtein, Legal N-Grams? A Simple Approach to Track the Evolution of Legal Language in Proceedings of JURIX: The 24th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (2011) < SSRN >

Daniel Martin Katz & Derek Stafford, Hustle and Flow: A Social Network Analysis of the American Federal Judiciary, 71 Ohio State Law Journal 457 (2010) < SSRN >

Michael Bommarito & Daniel Martin Katz, A Mathematical Approach to the Study of the United States Code, 389 Physica A 4195 (2010) < SSRN > < arXiv >

Michael Bommarito, Daniel Martin Katz & Jonathan Zelner, On the Stability of Community Detection Algorithms on Longitudinal Citation Data in Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Applications of Social Network Analysis (2010) < SSRN > < arXiv >

Michael Bommarito, Daniel Martin Katz, Jonathan Zelner & James Fowler, Distance Measures for Dynamic Citation Networks 389 Physica A 4201 (2010) < SSRN > < arXiv >

Michael Bommarito, Daniel Martin Katz & Jonathan Zelner, Law as a Seamless Web? Comparing Various Network Representations of the United States Supreme Court Corpus (1791-2005) in Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (2009) < SSRN >

Marvin Krislov & Daniel Martin Katz, Taking State Constitutions Seriously, 17 Cornell Journal of Law & Public Policy 295 (2008) < SSRN >

Daniel Martin Katz, Derek Stafford & Eric Provins, Social Architecture, Judicial Peer Effects and the ‘Evolution’ of the Law: Toward a Positive Theory of Judicial Social Structure, 23 Georgia State Law Review 975 (2008) < SSRN >

Daniel Martin Katz, Institutional Rules, Strategic Behavior and the Legacy of Chief Justice William Rehnquist: Setting the Record Straight on Dickerson v. United States, 22 Journal of Law & Politics 303 (2006) < SSRN >

Daniel Martin Katz, Michael Bommarito, Tyler Sollinger & James Ming Chen, Law on the Market? Abnormal Stock Returns and Supreme Court Decision-Making < SSRN > < arXiv > < Slides >

Daniel Martin Katz, Michael Bommarito & Josh Blackman, Crowdsourcing Accurately and Robustly Predicts Supreme Court Decisions < SSRN > < arXiv > < Slides >

Daniel Martin Katz & Michael Bommarito, Regulatory Dynamics Revealed by the Securities Filings of Registered Companies < Slides >

Pierpaolo Vivo, Daniel Martin Katz & J.B. Ruhl (Editors), The Physics of the Law: Legal Systems Through the Prism of Complexity Science, Special Collection for Frontiers in Physics (2021 Forthcoming) < Frontiers in Physics >

Corinna Coupette, Dirk Hartung, Janis Beckedorf, Maximilian Bother & Daniel Martin Katz, Law Smells – Defining and Detecting Problematic Patterns in Legal Drafting < SSRN >

Ilias Chalkidis, Abhik Jana, Dirk Hartung, Michael Bommarito, Ion Androutsopoulos, Daniel Martin Katz & Nikolaos Aletras, LexGLUE: A Benchmark Dataset for Legal Language Understanding in English < arXiv > < SSRN >