Amanda Bancroft announced today that the legal hacking event Law Hack Camp in London has been postponed until April 2013.
Bancroft says she will announce precise dates and other details shortly.
The Law Hack Camp Website is at http://lawhackcamp.com/ and its Twitter handle is @LawHackCamp.
HT @_millymoo
[NOTE: Law Hack Camp has been postponed until April, @_millymoo announced on 6 January 2013.]
A call for papers — with submission deadline of 25 December 2012 — has been issued for Law Hack Camp, a legal hackathon to be held 26-27 January 2013, London, England, UK.
The event is being organized by Amanda Bancroft and Jon Harman.
The Twitter hashtag for the event is #lawhackcamp
The Twitter account for the event is @lawhackcamp
For more details, please see the conference Website and the contact information listed there, or contact the organizers.
Click here for information on other recent legal hacking events.
HT @_millymoo
Tim Hwang of the University of California Berkeley School of Law has posted Letter One: Scoping “Legal Hacking”, at the Robot, Robot & Hwang Blog.
In this post Tim defines the terms “legal hackers” and “legal hacking” respecting three dimensions of meaning: “The Organizational and Human Capital of the Lawyer,” “The Tools of The Lawyer,” and “An Approach Towards The Law.” Respecting the last dimension, he explains:
Lawyers, then, are legal hackers insofar as they play with the law, find loopholes, stretch definitions, and make novel arguments. Technologists are legal hackers insofar as they launch technologies which disrupt existing legal distinctions, subvert the application of law, or otherwise raise questions about the integrity of the system.
For more information, please see the complete post.
Open Legislative Data in Paris: A Conference of the Third Kind with Hacktivists and Academics, is being held 6-7 July 2012, at Sciences Po, Paris, France.
[To see details about the conference, click here, and then, on the menu bar, cursor over "Conference / Conférence".]
Click here for the conference program.
Click here for archived Twitter tweets from the conference, in .csv format.
The Twitter hashtag for the conference is #oldp.
Click here for livestream of the conference.
Click here for collaborative notes from the conference.
The conference is sponsored by Regards Citoyens, Centre d’études européennes Sciences Po, and Le médialab Sciences Po.
Here are resources related to the Open Legislation Hackathon 2012, held 2 June 2012, at Queen’s Printer British Columbia, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
The event was sponsored by “the Queen’s Printers Association of Canada (QPAC) and the Open Data Society of BC.”
Click here for archived tweets from the event (in .csv format). The Twitter hashtag for the event is #QPhack.
Click here for a spreadsheet describing projects worked on during the event (scroll to the projects with Timestamp of 6/2/2012).
The projects worked on at the event that involved legal data include the following:
Here are posts about the event that I’ve been able to identify:
Click here for upcoming legal hacking events.
On Twitter, the hashtags for legal hacking news are #legalhack and #legalhacks.
An Open Legislation Hackathon will be held 2 June 2012, at Queen’s Printer British Columbia, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, according to this announcement.
According to the announcement, the event is sponsored by “the Queen’s Printers Association of Canada (QPAC) and the Open Data Society of BC.”
Here is the description of the event:
It’s a chance to build mobile or online applications using legislative data from across the provinces of Canada.[...]
The goal is to share the experience, findings, and difficulties of creating online apps based on legislative data published by the different Queen’s Printers of Canada. Present your apps and experience to representatives of the annual QPAC conference from across Canada! Your app and presentation may change the way other provinces look at legislative data, online licensing and open data policies!
What are we building?
Anything you like! It would be great if it uses legislative data. We want to see what you can come up with! Focus on multiple jurisdictions, or just one.
For more information, please see the announcement.
HT @kimnayyer and @ColinLaChance.
Several posts and videos have been published about the legal hacking events — the Brooklyn Law School Legal Hackathon (held 15 April 2012); the Georgetown Law Center Iron Tech Lawyer Competition, held 18 April 2012; and the International Legislation Unhackathon (held 19 May 2012) — that have taken place in recent weeks (If you know of others, please mention them in the comments):
Here are videos and posts about/from the Brooklyn Law School Legal Hackathon:
Here are posts and videos about the the Georgetown Law Center Iron Tech Lawyer Competition:
For posts and resources about the International Legislation Unhackathon, held 19 May 2012, click here.
For post and resources about the Open Legislation Hackathon 2012, held 2 June 2012 in Victoria, BC, click here.
Legal hacking is a movement. On Twitter, the hashtags for legal hacking news are #legalhack and #legalhacks. Click here for upcoming legal hacking events.
