Calls for proposals have been issued for action grants from the European Commission Directorate General Justice, in the areas of Criminal Justice and Civil Justice.
A wide range of technology-related justice projects are eligible for funding under both programs.
Submission deadline for criminal justice grants is 30 May 2013.
Submission deadline for civil justice grants is 4 June 2013.
For details, please see the calls.
HT @eJustitie
On 3 February 2013 an additional $10,000 for the Aaron Swartz Memorial Grants — which fund the development of the RECAP project aimed at increasing public access to U.S. federal judicial information — were announced by Stephen Schultze of Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy.
Here is an excerpt from the announcement:
The generous folks over at Google’s Open Source Programs team have pledged to support two more RECAP-related project awards — at $5,000 each. These are open to anyone who wishes to submit a proposal for a significant improvement to the RECAP system. We will work with the proposers to scope the project and define what qualifies for the award.
There are several potential ideas. For instance, someone might propose add support to RECAP for displaying the user’s current balance and prompting the user to liberate up to their free quarterly $15 allocation as the end of the quarter approaches (inspired by Operation Asymptote). Someone might propose to improve the archive.recapthelaw.org interface, and to improve detection and removal of private information. Someone might propose some other idea that we haven’t thought of. You may wish to watch the discussion of a few of these initial ideas from our developer kickoff session.
Email info@recapthelaw.org if you are interested. Thanks again to the Think Computer Foundation and Google.
These grants are in addition to the original $5,000 in grants sponsored by Think Computer Foundation and the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University, where RECAP was developed.
Click here for Stephen Schultze’s VoxPopuLII post explaining RECAP.
HT @harlanyu and @sjschultze
The ReInventLaw Laboratory at Michigan State University College of Law — co-founded by Professor Dr. Daniel Martin Katz and Professor Renee Newman Knake — has received a $150,000 grant from the Kauffman Foundation, according to a press release issued today by the college.
According to the press release, the Kauffman Foundation issued the following remarks about the grant:
“This program will expand access to legal services by creating a new vehicle for the delivery — including lower barriers to entrepreneurial entry into the legal system,” said Dane Stangler, director of research at the Kauffman Foundation. “This grant derives from Kauffman’s Law, Innovation and Growth initiative, which supports research on how best to shape the U.S. legal system so that it promotes innovation and growth.”
According to the laboratory’s Website, ReInventLaw will focus on training law students in “innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship” respecting legal services performance and delivery.
For more information, please see the ReInventLaw Website.
Professor Karl Okamoto of Drexel University College of Law has been awarded a National Science Foundation grant to develop a virtual law practice platform for use by law students learning practice skills, according to Dara McBride’s article, Drexel law professor creates a virtual venue for getting real-world experience, Philadelphia Inquirer, 14 August 2012.
The platform is called LawMeets.
Click here for a description of the grant.
In a tweet today LawMeets suggested it may be willing to share its code.
HT @stephkimbro.
Applications are invited — with submission deadline of 1 February 2011 for the second quarter of fiscal year 2011 — for grants offered by the State Justice Institute (SJI). SJI offers grants to fund improvements in justice administration in U.S. state courts.
Grant categories of interest to the legal informatics and legal communication communities include Project Grants — particularly in the areas of immigration issues, state court reengineering, courts and the media, and elder issues — and Technical Assistance Grants, that fund the hiring of outside experts, and travel to observe the practices of other courts.
For more information, please see the SJI Grants Website.
Applications are invited — with submission deadline of 31 January 2011 — for scholarships for the Ph.D. program in Artificial Intelligence in Law at European University Institute Law Department, in Florence, Italy.
A call for proposals — with submission deadline of 1 September 2010 — has been issued for Civil Justice Action Grants, with the designation JLS/2010/JCIV/AG, by the EU Directorate General for Justice, Freedom, and Security.
Applications are invited respecting the areas of e-Justice or the training of legal practitioners.
For more information, please see the call for proposals.
[NOTE: In addition to the call for proposals described on this post, readers may be interested in the call for proposals for 2010 e-Justice Action Grants, designated JLS/2010/JPEN/AG/EJ.]
A call for proposals — with submission deadline of 15 September 2010 — has been issued for Criminal Justice Action Grants, with the designation JLS/2010/JPEN/AG, by the EU Directorate General for Justice, Freedom, and Security.
Proposals are invited on the following legal informatics topics:
Interconnection of criminal records
“National and transnational projects concerning the interconnection of national criminal record IT systems within the EU presented by national central authorities [...]. Exchange of information about convictions in the EU is to be facilitated through the creation of a computerised system of exchange of information ECRIS-European Criminal Records Information System. Projects should have one or more of the following objectives:”
European e-Justice
“A separate call for European e-Justice with specific conditions is foreseen and has already been published. However, European e-Justice is also one of the priorities of this general call under the Criminal Justice Programme in 2010. In this general call, non-profit organisations are encouraged to participate in the development of European e-Justice. Their projects should help develop the use of electronic tools in the context of justice, taking into consideration national developments on the basis of exchange of best practice.
“All projects should aim to provide practical tools to enable better access to crossborder justice for EU citizens. [...]“
Proposals are invited on the following topics:
For more information, please see the call for proposals.
