Updates on selected legal informatics developments are now being posted on Legal Informatics tumblr and on Twitter.
In the Web interface to this blog, the Twitter updates are visible to the right under “Twitter updates”.
Dazza Greenwood has posted Law Itself is the Killer Blockchain App.
Excerpts:
[…] On a panel discussion about blockchains and the law at the Legal Hackers Congress in NYC this weekend, I’ll provide a sneak-peek at a new, systematic approach for using open blockchains to open the law. All the law. […]
[…] when the law can is publicly verifiable and openly computational, it will be possible to make more definite legal statements and ensure more predictable legal outcomes. A killer blockchain app to liberate law as verifiable, standard data may also hold the key to render law understandable and usable by people, groups and organizations.
UPDATE: Project site is now up, at: http://LawChain.org
The project’s GitHub repo is at: https://github.com/LawChain
HT @dazzagreenwood and @thelawchain
SubTech 2016: International Conference on Substantive Technology in Legal Education and Practice was held 7-9 July 2015 at University of Richmond School of Law in Richmond, Virginia, USA.
The conference website is at: http://blog.richmond.edu/subtech/
The conference agenda is at: https://blog.richmond.edu/subtech/?page_id=188
Twitter hashtags for the conference included: #subtech16 and #subtech2016
A storify of images, links, and Twitter tweets from the conference is at:
https://storify.com/richards1000/subtech-2016-international-conference-on-substanti
HT @weblawlib
A new online group for those who teach technology to law students, called Teaching Technology to Law Students Special Interest Group, is being hosted by CALI.
HT @johnpmayer
Karl Branting and Jack Conrad have posted the proceedings and a report of LTDCA 2016: Legal Text, Document, and Corpus Analytics Workshop, held 17 June 2016 the University of San Diego School of Law.
The event Website and program are at: http://www.sandiego.edu/law/school/events/detail.php?_focus=55039
A storify of Twitter tweets and photos from the workshop is at: https://storify.com/richards1000/ltdca-2016-workshop-on-legal-text-document-and-cor
HT @jackgconrad
Charlotte S. Vlek, Henry Prakken, Silja Renooij, and Bart Verheij have published A method for explaining Bayesian networks for legal evidence with scenarios, forthcoming in Artificial Intelligence and Law:
doi:10.1007/s10506-016-9183-4
Guido Boella, Luigi Di Caro, Llio Humphreys, Livio Robaldo , Piercarlo Rossi, and Leendert van der Torre have published Eunomos, a legal document and knowledge management system for the Web to provide relevant, reliable and up-to-date information on the law, forthcoming in Artificial Intelligence and Law: doi:10.1007/s10506-016-9184-3
