2024-2025 Schedule

Online Workshop on the Computational Analysis of Law

T, 21 Jan. 12–1:20         David Stein, Rethinking the Patent Bargain: Empirical Evidence of Low Patent Quality under Existing Inventiveness Standards. Amit Haim & Christoph Engel, Assessing Large Language Models for Legal Aid Triage.

Th, 20 Feb. 12–1:20      Douglas Rice & Christopher Zorn, Disagreement or Dysfunction? Using LLMs to Measure Disagreement on the U.S. Supreme Court. Peter Grajzl & Peter Murrell, Measuring Institutional Innovation: Recombinant Novelty in Early-Modern English Caselaw.

Th, 20 March 1–2:20     Dane Thorley, et al., Deriving Quantitative Data from the Text of Warrant Applications, Approvals, and Executions. Jon Choi & David Abrams, Are Police Biased? An NLP Approach.

T, 22 April 12–1:20        Jens Frankenreiter & Scott Hirst, Moving Goalposts in Corporate Elections: Measuring Advance Notice Bylaws at Scale. Jeremy McClane, Text and Context: Tracing the Evolution of Language in Loan Contracts.

Presenters in bold. All times U.S. Eastern.