Mayer-Schönberger and Cukier on Big Data and Law

Professor Dr. Viktor Mayer-Schönberger of the Oxford Internet Institute and Kenneth Neil Cukier of The Economist gave a presentation entitled Big Data — and Its Dark Side, 6 March 2013, at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.

The presentation concerned their new book entitled Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think (Houghton Mifflin, 2013).

The presentation includes some examples concerning legal data, including an analysis of topics discussed in proceedings of the British House of Commons, a study of the association between the ideology and citation practices of U.S. Supreme Court Justices, and predictive policing.

January 30: Georgetown Law Conference: Big Data and Big Challenges for Law and Legal Information

Some legal informatics and legal methodology presentations are being given at Georgetown Law Library Symposium in Celebration of 125 Years: Big Data and Big Challenges for Law and Legal Information, being held today, 30 January 2013, at Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC.

Twitter hashtag for the event is #GtownLawBigData

Click here for the live webcast of the event.

The program appears below. I believe Josh Blackman’s presentation deals with quantitative legal prediction.

The conference organizers say they will post slides of many of the presentations.

9:15 – 10:30 a.m.
Panel 1: Privacy Risks and Public Benefits of Big Data
Francine E. Friedman, Senior Policy Counsel, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Leslie Johnston, Chief of Repository Development; Manager, Technical Architecture Initiatives, National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, Library of Congress
Paul Ohm, Professor, University of Colorado Law School; Senior Policy Advisor, Federal Trade Commission
Marylin J. Raisch, Associate Law Librarian for International and Foreign Law, Georgetown University Law Center (Moderator)

10:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Panel 2: Big Data Applications in Scholarship and Policy I
Josh Blackman, Professor, South Texas College of Law
Carole Roan Gresenz, Professor, Georgetown University School of Nursing & Health Studies
Bill LeFurgy, Digital Initiatives Manager, National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, Library of Congress
Kathryn Zeiler, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
Kumar Percy Jayasuriya, Associate Law Librarian for Patron Services, Georgetown University Law Center (Moderator)

12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
Lunch and Keynote Address
Spiros Dimolitsas, Senior Vice President for Research and Chief Technology Officer, Georgetown University

1:00 – 2:15 p.m.
Panel 3: Big Data Applications in Scholarship and Policy II
Margaret O. Adams, Supervisory Archivist, Archival Electronic Records Operations, National Archives and Records Administration
Vicki Arroyo, Executive Director, Georgetown Climate Center; Visiting Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
Mark E. Herlihy, Deputy Director, Institute of International Economic Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Joshua C. Teitelbaum, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
Jason S. Zarin, Reference Librarian, Georgetown University Law Center (Moderator)

HT @GtownLawLib

Katz: Legal Information Engineering and Technology: Course Materials

Professor Dr. Daniel Martin Katz of the Michigan State University College of Law has posted materials for his course on Legal Information Engineering and Technology, at Computational Legal Studies.

The course materials include a syllabus and lecture slides.

The course covers such topics as analysis of law-related “big data” sets, quantitative legal prediction, legal Semantic Web technology, and artificial intelligence and law.

The course features presentations by Dr. Adam Wyner of the University of Liverpool Department of Computer Science, on legal Semantic Web technology, and Jack G. Conrad of Thomson Reuters, on artificial intelligence and law.

Course participants will also attend LawTechCamp London 2012, the legal technology unconference, 29 June 2012.

The course is being offered as part of The 21st Century Law Practice London Summer Program 2012, sponsored by Michigan State University College of Law and the University of Westminster School of Law.