Posts Tagged ‘Viktor Mayer-Schönberger’

Mayer-Schönberger and Cukier on Big Data and Law

March 17, 2013

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.

Mayer-Schönberger on Obstacles to Innovation in Online Legal Information Markets

October 22, 2009

Professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger of the National University of Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy has written an interesting post on obstacles to innovation in the markets for online legal information, entitled Venture Capital & Peer Production, at VoxPopuLII.

Professor Mayer-Schönberger argues that risk and cost factors, user preferences, and the relatively small size of the legal information market, all discourage innovation. Professor Mayer-Schönberger concludes by advocating open source peer production of new software for the legal information market, and identifying roles for users, software designers, and existing software tools in such production.


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