Computational Law
Law
without
Lawyers
Lessons
Lesson 1 - Computational Law
Lecture -
The Legacy of Hammurabi
(Genesereth)
Reading -
Introduction
Reading -
Rules As Code
(Mohun)
Reading -
The Rule of Law as a Law of Rules
(Scalia)
Assignment -
Teaming
Assignment -
Projects
Lesson 2 - Data
Lecture -
Ontologies and Data
(Genesereth)
Reading -
Datasets
Assignment -
Sorority World
Assignment -
Data in Sierra
Assignment -
Movies
Assignment - Project Ontology and Data
Lesson 3 - Definitions
Lecture -
View Definitions
(Genesereth)
Lecture -
Operation Definitions
(Genesereth)
Reading -
View Definitions
Reading -
Operation Definitions
Assignment -
Views in Sierra
Assignment -
Operations in Sierra
Assignment - Game of Life
Assignment - Project Definitions
Lesson 4 - Regulations and Contracts
Lecture - Formalizing Regulations (Genesereth)
Lecture - Formalizing Contracts (Genesereth)
Lecture - Challenges (Genesereth)
Reading -
Computable Contracts
(Surden)
Reading -
A Cure for Health Insurance "Sludge"
(Genesereth)
Reading -
The British Nationality Act as a Logic Program
(Kowalski)
Reading -
No Vehicles in the Park
(Schlag)
Assignment - Presentation Topic
Assignment - Constraints in Sierra
Assignment -
Pelican Hunters
Assignment - Project Regulations
Lesson 5 - Compliance Management
Lecture - Introduction (Genesereth)
Lecture - Turbotax
(Agarwal or students)
Lecture - Symbium
(Mohapatra or students)
Lecture - Formally
(Vavrovsky or students)
Assignment -
Assessment
Lesson 6 - Regulatory Analysis and Contract Management
Lecture - Introduction (Genesereth)
Lecture - Insurance Portfolio Analysis (Preston)
Lecture - Inconsistency and Gap Analysis (Enci)
Reading -
Insurance Portfolio Management
(Genesereth)
Reading -
Insurance Portfolio Analysis as Containment Testing
(Carlson)
Assignment -
Assessment
Lesson 7 - Legislation and Contracting
Lecture - Introduction (Genesereth)
Lecture - Autonomous Legislation (Thibault or students)
Lecture - Technology-Driven Changes to Laws (Mohapatra)
Lecture - Adaptive Law (Pentland or Greenwood or students)
Lecture - Deals Among Rational Agents (Rosenschein or students)
Reading -
Rules and Standards
(Schlag)
Reading -
Autonomous Legislation
(Thibault)
Reading -
Deals Among Rational Agents
(Rosenschein)
Assignment -
Assessment
Lesson 8 - Adjudication and Dispute Resolution
Lecture - Introduction (Genesereth)
Lecture - Case-Based Reasoning (Ashley or students)
Lecture - Argumentation Theory (Walton or students)
Lecture - Predictive Analytics (Katz or students)
Lecture - Crowd-Sourced Justice (Ast or students)
Reading -
A Brief History of the Changing Roles of Case Prediction
(Ashley)
Reading -
Argumentation Theory
(Walton)
Reading -
General Approach for Predicting the Behavior of the Supreme Court
(Katz)
Reading -
The CrowdJury, a Crowdsourced Justice System for the Collaboration Era
(Ast)
Reading -
Artificial Intelligence for Adjudication
(Ho)
Assignment -
Assessment
Lesson 9 - Regulatory Implications
Lecture - Introduction (Genesereth)
Lecture - How Technology Could Change Our Concept of Law (Sheppard or students)
Lecture - Government By Algorithm (Engstrom or students)
Lecture - The Natural Language Dilemma (Ma)
Reading -
How Technology Could Change Our Concept of Law
(Sheppard)
Reading -
Government By Algorithm
(Engstrom)
Assignment -
Project Report
Lesson 10 - Legal Informatics
Lecture - Overview of Legal Informatics (Vogl)
Reading -
The Coming of Age of Legal Technology
(Vogl)
Reading -
AI, Work, and 'Outcome-Thinking'
Reading -
Law's Information Revolution