Legal Software: iunie 2014

luni, 30 iunie 2014

5 Ways to Optimize Your Law Office Space for Health, Success

Ever wonder how the other half lives? The ABA Journal ran a piece this morning on how BigLaw firms, with massive architectural budgets, are rethinking their office spaces: glass walls, fancy cafeterias, and lounge-braries. It's high class hotel lobbies and...

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Surden: Computable Contracts – Part 2

Professor Harry Surden of the University of Colorado has posted Computable Contracts – Part 2 , at Concurring Opinions .

Here is a summary of the post:

This is the second part of a series explaining “computable contracts.” For more about what a computable contract is, please see the first part here.

[...] The goal of this second part is to explain the intuition behind how an ordinary contract can become a computable contract.

Three Steps to Computable Contracting

There are three steps to creating a computable contract:

Data-Oriented Contracting

Semantic Contract terms

Automated assessment of contract terms

I will discuss each of these steps in turn. [...]

Click here for video of Professor Surden’s May 2014 presentation on Computable Contracts, for Professor Michael Genesereth and Dr. Roland Vogl’s course on legal informatics at Stanford Law School.

For details, please see the complete post.

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Maharg: Emergent educational designs and distributed autonomous organisations

Professor Dr. Paul Maharg of Australian National University has posted Emergent educational designs and distributed autonomous organisations , at his blog.

The post begins with comments on Kate Galloway, LL.M. ‘s earlier post: Legal education in a digital context .

Professor Maharg’s post continues:

[...] The nature of how we teach will change radically; and how will affect what. Problem-based learning, simulation, clinic are (to quote Lee Shulman) the shadow pedagogies that are slowly emerging from the shadows. But behind them, waiting to emerge, hand-in-hand with digital technologies, are even more shadowy, much more powerfully technologized and personal curriculum designs, which we need to understand and adapt.

What are these shadowy pedagogies? See for instance Eris – a platform for distributed autonomous organizations (DAOs) that use Ethereum blockchain technologies. [...] In the WG Hart presentation a few days ago I summarised some of the uses of this open technology [...] In legal education, a blockchained environment might include learning objects, a comms system, a badge system (eg Mozilla Badges), a payment system, access to knowledge and skills environments and other decentralised functions. Decentralisation — what’s the role of the LMS then? I’d guess that we’re already moving away from it, and blockchained legal education will probably render it unwieldy, pointless.

More fundamentally, and given disintermediation, what does this do to the nature, role and status of the law school as educational institution? And how should this be regulated? We have papers on Bitcoin regulation to use as a model, but we need much more imaginative thinking, and we need to do that with regulators, as I argued at the WG Hart Workshop, and bring them with us in our thinking. Above all, we need to do it for ourselves and our students, so that we can greet the technologies as they emerge from the shadows, and draw them into the endless educational conversation, glancing awhile at the figures behind them, waiting their turn to emerge into the light.

For more details, please see the complete post.

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Surden: Computable Contracts – Part 2

Professor Harry Surden of the University of Colorado has posted Computable Contracts – Part 2 , at Concurring Opinions .

Here is a summary of the post:

This is the second part of a series explaining “computable contracts.” For more about what a computable contract is, please see the first part here.

[...] The goal of this second part is to explain the intuition behind how an ordinary contract can become a computable contract.

Three Steps to Computable Contracting

There are three steps to creating a computable contract:

Data-Oriented Contracting

Semantic Contract terms

Automated assessment of contract terms

I will discuss each of these steps in turn. [...]

For details, please see the complete post.

Filed under: Applications, Others' scholarly or sophisticated blogposts, Technology developments, Technology tools Tagged: Artificial intelligence and law, Automated assessment of contract terms, Automated evaluation of contract terms, Automated evaluation of contracts, Automated evaluation of contractual terms, Computable contracts, Concurring Opinions, Contract compliance systems, Contract information systems, Contract law information systems, Contracts as data, Contractual rules as data, Data-oriented contracting, Digital contracts, Electronic contracts, Harry Surden, Legal compliance systems, Legal rules as data, Modeling contract provisions, Modeling contracts, Modeling contractual obligations, Modeling legal rules, Semantic contract terms

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Maharg: Emergent educational designs and distributed autonomous organisations

Professor Dr. Paul Maharg of Australian National University has posted Emergent educational designs and distributed autonomous organisations .

The post begins by commenting on Professor Kate Galloway’s earlier post on technology in legal education.

Here are excerpts from Professor Maharg’s post:

[...] The nature of how we teach will change radically; and how will affect what. Problem-based learning, simulation, clinic are (to quote Lee Shulman) the shadow pedagogies that are slowly emerging from the shadows. But behind them, waiting to emerge, hand-in-hand with digital technologies, are even more shadowy, much more powerfully technologized and personal curriculum designs, which we need to understand and adapt.

What are these shadowy pedagogies? See for instance Eris – a platform for distributed autonomous organizations (DAOs) that use Ethereum blockchain technologies. [...] In the WG Hart presentation a few days ago I summarised some of the uses of this open technology [...] In legal education, a blockchained environment might include learning objects, a comms system, a badge system (eg Mozilla Badges), a payment system, access to knowledge and skills environments and other decentralised functions. Decentralisation — what’s the role of the LMS then? I’d guess that we’re already moving away from it, and blockchained legal education will probably render it unwieldy, pointless.

More fundamentally, and given disintermediation, what does this do to the nature, role and status of the law school as educational institution? And how should this be regulated? We have papers on Bitcoin regulation to use as a model, but we need much more imaginative thinking, and we need to do that with regulators, as I argued at the WG Hart Workshop, and bring them with us in our thinking. Above all, we need to do it for ourselves and our students, so that we can greet the technologies as they emerge from the shadows, and draw them into the endless educational conversation, glancing awhile at the figures behind them, waiting their turn to emerge into the light.

For more details, please see the complete post.

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sâmbătă, 28 iunie 2014

Online Dispute Resolution Forum 2014, 25-27 June: Video, storify, links, and resources

Online Dispute Resolution Forum 2014 was held 25-27 June 2014 at UC Hastings Law School and Stanford Law School in San Francisco and Stanford, California, USA.

The conference was preceded by Tech for Justice Hackathon , held 21-22 June 2014 in San Francisco.

The conference Website is at: http://www.odr2014.org/

The conference agenda is available at: http://ift.tt/1j4EPUH

Videos of some conference events are available at: http://ift.tt/1pLbvIM

Click here for slides of many of the presentations, and some photos of conference events [HT @peteyreplies].

Click here for a liveblog of the conference, by Chris Peterson at MIT Center for Civic Media.

The Twitter hashtag for the event appears to be: #odr2014

The Twitter account for the conference appears to be @ODR2014Forum

Click here for a storify of photos and Twitter tweets from the conference.

Click here for archived Twitter tweets from the conference, in .csv format.

HT @jaxhead

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Online Dispute Resolution Forum 2014, 25-27 June: Links and resources

Online Dispute Resolution Forum 2014 is being held 25-27 June 2014 at UC Hastings Law School and Stanford Law School in San Francisco and Stanford, California, USA.

The conference Website is at: http://www.odr2014.org/

The conference agenda is available at: http://ift.tt/1j4EPUH

Livestream video of the conference is available at: http://ift.tt/1pLbvIM

Click here to register for livestream video from the conference.

Click here for slides of many of the presentations, and some photos of conference events [HT @peteyreplies].

Click here for a liveblog of the conference, by Chris Peterson at MIT Center for Civic Media.

The Twitter hashtag for the event appears to be: #odr2014

The Twitter account for the conference appears to be @ODR2014Forum

Click here for a storify of photos and Twitter tweets from the conference.

Click here for archived Twitter tweets from the conference, in .csv format.

Click here for information and resources about the Tech for Justice Hackathon held in conjunction with the conference.

For more resources related to this conference, please see the comments to this post.

HT @jaxhead

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New York Legal Hackers Demo Night, 24 June 2014: Storify, tweets, and resources

Legal Hackers Demo Night, organized by New York Legal Hackers, was held 24 June 2014, at Dev BootCamp NYC in New York City.

Click here for the event Website and agenda.

The organizers say that video of the event will be available at some future date.

The Twitter hashtag for the event was #legalhack

Click here for a storify of photos and Twitter tweets from the event.

Click here for archived Twitter tweets from the event, in .csv format.

Here is the list of speakers, from the event’s Website:

Noah Waisberg – DiligenceEngine

Jules Miller – Hire An Esquire

Harris Brown – Shake

Nehal Madhani – plainlegal

Paige Zandri – Priori Legal

Peter Rood – Distributed Justice

Jared Brenner – What If Wiki

Howard Greenstein & David Mitnick – DomainSkate

Irina Tsukerman – Justat

Matthew Burnett & Tony Lu – CitizenshipWorks

For more details, please see the event’s Website.

HT @legalhackNYC

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Online Dispute Resolution Forum 2014, 25-27 June: Video, storify, links, and resources

Online Dispute Resolution Forum 2014 was held 25-27 June 2014 at UC Hastings Law School and Stanford Law School in San Francisco and Stanford, California, USA.

The conference was preceded by Tech for Justice Hackathon , held 21-22 June 2014 in San Francisco.

The conference Website is at: http://www.odr2014.org/

The conference agenda is available at: http://ift.tt/1j4EPUH

Videos of some conference events are available at: http://ift.tt/1pLbvIM

Click here for slides of many of the presentations, and some photos of conference events [HT @peteyreplies].

Click here for a liveblog of the conference, by Chris Peterson at MIT Center for Civic Media.

The Twitter hashtag for the event appears to be: #odr2014

The Twitter account for the conference appears to be @ODR2014Forum

Click here for a storify of photos and Twitter tweets from the conference.

Click here for archived Twitter tweets from the conference, in .csv format.

HT @jaxhead

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joi, 26 iunie 2014

How to Deal With Ramadan Fasting While Working: 5 Tips

Ramadan is coming. And for those that fast, this is probably the worst time of year for Ramadan. With daylight hours clocking in at almost 15 hours of the day, Ramadan (always difficult) is especially hard during summer. So, as...

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One Year After Windsor: The State of Same-Sex Marriage

It's been one year since the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Windsor, striking down part of the Defense of Marriage Act as an unconstitutional "deprivation of the liberty of the person protected by the Fifth Amendment of the...

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miercuri, 25 iunie 2014

Working Families Summit: How Your Law Firm Can Help #FamiliesSucceed

On Monday, the President and First Lady hosted The White House Summit on Working Families to kick start the "conversation on working families for a 21st century workplace." The President's remarks showed his commitment to working families, and focused...

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Online Dispute Resolution Forum 2014, 25-27 June: Links and resources

Online Dispute Resolution Forum 2014 is being held 25-27 June 2014 at UC Hastings Law School and Stanford Law School in San Francisco and Stanford, California, USA.

The conference Website is at: http://www.odr2014.org/

The conference agenda is available at: http://ift.tt/1j4EPUH

Click here to register for livestream video from the conference.

The Twitter hashtag for the event appears to be: #odr2014

Click here for information and resources about the Tech for Justice Hackathon held in conjunction with the conference.

HT @jaxhead

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New York Legal Hackers Demo Night, 24 June 2014: Storify, tweets, and resources

Legal Hackers Demo Night, organized by New York Legal Hackers, was held 24 June 2014, at Dev BootCamp NYC in New York City.

Click here for the event Website and agenda.

The organizers say that video of the event will be available at some future date.

The Twitter hashtag for the event was #legalhack

Click here for a storify of photos and Twitter tweets from the event.

Click here for archived Twitter tweets from the event, in .csv format.

Here is the list of speakers, from the event’s Website:

Noah Waisberg – DiligenceEngine

>Jules Miller – Hire An Esquire

Harris Brown – Shake

Nehal Madhani – plainlegal

Paige Zandri – Priori Legal

Peter Rood – Distributed Justice

Jared Brenner – What If Wiki

Howard Greenstein & David Mitnick – DomainSkate

Irina Tsukerman – Justat

Matthew Burnett & Tony Lu – CitizenshipWorks

For more details, please see the event’s Website.

HT @legalhackNYC

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marți, 24 iunie 2014

Hagan: The Guardianship Navigator Project

Dr. Margaret Hagan of Stanford University has posted The Guardianship Navigator Project at the blog of the Program for Legal Tech + Design .

Here are excerpts from the post:

Welcome to the project page for the Guardianship Navigator Project . We are designing new services and products to help a lay person navigate a Guardianship action.

Our group at Stanford is working with court staff & self-help center directors to revise the current process that users must go through, to make it easier to understand and get a successful resolution. We are using a human-centered design process to generate breakthrough ideas and make sure they will be usable, useful, and engaging for the users.

This page will document the ideas our design process generates, as well as the process itself. Please leave comments if you have feedback or ideas. [...]

We ran a Participatory Design Sprint in May with court staff, technologists and designers to source ideas. [...]

Below, find a categorized groupings of some of the ideas that emerged out of the brainstorms & discussions. [...]

For more details and images, please see the complete post.

HT @LegalTechDesign

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Johnson: Ethereum contracts as legal contracts

Attorney Tom Johnson has posted a video entitled Ethereum contracts as legal contracts , as part of the EtherCasts video series on YouTube .

The video is the subject of a new post by Professor Dr. Daniel Martin Katz at Computational Legal Studies: Ethereum contracts as legal contracts .

Here is a description of the video:

Tom Johnson describes the conditions under which an Ethereum or other smart contract can be a legal contract. Tom is a patent attorney in San Jose who has written on Bitcoin.

Johnson also appears to attend the Silicon Valley Ethereum Meetup.

Click here for other posts about legal applications of blockchain technology.

HT Jurix

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Tech for Justice Hackathon, at Online Dispute Resolution Forum 2014: Video, storify, tweets, and resources

Tech for Justice Hackathon, at Online Dispute Resolution Forum 2014, was held 21-22 June 2014, at Code for America’s offices, in San Francisco, California, USA.

Video of some presentations at Day 1 of the event is at: http://ift.tt/1pLbvIM

The Website for the event, with agenda, is at: http://ift.tt/1liLaRc

Click here for the registration page and the conference schedule.

The Twitter hashtags for the event appear to be #techforjustice and #hackthelaw

The Twitter account for the event appears to be @techforjustice

Click here for a storify of Twitter tweets and photos from the event.

Click here for archived Twitter tweets from Days 1 and 2 of the event, in .csv format.

Here is a description of the event from the registration page:

[...] ODR2014 is proud to host the first ever dispute resolution hackathon, where participants will spend the weekend of June 21-22nd tackling problems within [several] thematic areas, and produce prototypes that will be curated and presented to audiences at ODR2014’s UC Hastings event. [...]

Here are the thematic areas that are listed on the registration page:

collaborative economy

privacy

cyberbullying & harassment

healthcare dispute management

environment – reporting and acting on environmental abuse through crowdsourcing mechanisms

intellectual property

landlord & tenancy – housing issues

Projects developed at the event are scheduled to be presented again at ODR 2014 on 25 June.

For more details, please see the event Website.

HT @darin_thompson

Filed under: Applications, Conference resources, Hackathons, Hacking, Storify, Technology developments, Technology tools, Tweet archives, Videos Tagged: #LegalHack, #tech4justice, #techforjustice, Access to justice and legal information systems, Environmental law dispute resolution systems, Environmental law information systems, Hackthelaw, Healthcare law dispute resolution systems, Healthcare law information systems, Intellectual property law dispute resolution systems, Intellectual property law information systems, Landlord and tenant information systems, Landlord and tenant law dispute resolution systems, Legal hackathons, ODR, ODR 2014, ODR Forum 2014, Online dispute resolution, Online Dispute Resolution Forum 2014, Privacy law dispute resolution systems, Privacy law information systems, Tech for Justice Hackathon, Tech for Justice Hackathon 2014, Technology for access to justice

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Companies Learning: Social Media Engagement, Not Follower Counts

Way back in 2004, those of us who first joined Facebook had a simple metric for success: friend count. The more friends we had, the cooler we were. (Okay, we were sad little nerds for even caring, but still, Internet...

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Hagan: The Guardianship Navigator Project

Dr. Margaret Hagan of Stanford University has posted The Guardianship Navigator Project at the blog of the Program for Legal Tech + Design .

Here are excerpts from the post:

Welcome to the project page for the Guardianship Navigator Project . We are designing new services and products to help a lay person navigate a Guardianship action.

Our group at Stanford is working with court staff & self-help center directors to revise the current process that users must go through, to make it easier to understand and get a successful resolution. We are using a human-centered design process to generate breakthrough ideas and make sure they will be usable, useful, and engaging for the users.

This page will document the ideas our design process generates, as well as the process itself. Please leave comments if you have feedback or ideas. [...]

We ran a Participatory Design Sprint in May with court staff, technologists and designers to source ideas. [...]

Below, find a categorized groupings of some of the ideas that emerged out of the brainstorms & discussions. [...]

For more details and images, please see the complete post.

HT @LegalTechDesign

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Johnson: Ethereum contracts as legal contracts

Attorney Tom Johnson has posted a video entitled Ethereum contracts as legal contracts , as part of the EtherCasts video series on YouTube .

The video is the subject of a new post by Professor Dr. Daniel Martin Katz at Computational Legal Studies: Ethereum contracts as legal contracts .

Here is a description of the video:

Tom Johnson describes the conditions under which an Ethereum or other smart contract can be a legal contract. Tom is a patent attorney in San Jose who has written on Bitcoin.

Johnson also appears to attend the Silicon Valley Ethereum Meetup.

Click here for other posts about legal applications of blockchain technology.

HT Jurix

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luni, 23 iunie 2014

Working Families Summit: President Obama's Priorities

I've said it before, the issues facing women in the workplace are not women's issues but family issues -- but, this time I don't need to say it again. Instead, I'll let President Barack Obama say it: "This is...

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3 Reasons Why You Should Hire Millennials for your Firm

Millennials get a really bad rap -- especially from the Baby Boomer set, which ironically, raised the Millennial generation, notes Entrepreneur. Many have said that the very same complaints about Millennials -- laziness, a sense of entitlement -- have...

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Tech for Justice Hackathon, at Online Dispute Resolution Forum 2014: Video, storify, tweets, and resources

Tech for Justice Hackathon, at Online Dispute Resolution Forum 2014, was held 21-22 June 2014, at Code for America’s offices, in San Francisco, California, USA.

Video of some presentations at Day 1 of the event is at: http://ift.tt/1j4EMZ4

The Website for the event, with agenda, is at: http://ift.tt/1liLaRc

Click here for the registration page and the conference schedule.

The Twitter hashtags for the event appear to be #techforjustice and #hackthelaw

The Twitter account for the event appears to be @techforjustice

Click here for a storify of Twitter tweets and photos from the event.

Click here for archived Twitter tweets from Days 1 and 2 of the event, in .csv format.

Here is a description of the event from the registration page:

[...] ODR2014 is proud to host the first ever dispute resolution hackathon, where participants will spend the weekend of June 21-22nd tackling problems within [several] thematic areas, and produce prototypes that will be curated and presented to audiences at ODR2014’s UC Hastings event. [...]

Here are the thematic areas that are listed on the registration page:

collaborative economy

privacy

cyberbullying & harassment

healthcare dispute management

environment – reporting and acting on environmental abuse through crowdsourcing mechanisms

intellectual property

landlord & tenancy – housing issues

Projects developed at the event are scheduled to be presented again at ODR 2014 on 25 June.

For more details, please see the event Website.

HT @darin_thompson

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CALICon 2014: Conference for Law School Computing: Storify, tweets, and resources

CALICon 2014: Conference for Law School Computing, was held 19-21 June 2014 at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

The conference Website is at: http://ift.tt/1noA8aX

Videos from the event will be posted in the coming weeks.

The conference program with abstracts is at: http://ift.tt/1o5pOZh

The conference blog is at: http://ift.tt/1p8ZO0Q

Twitter hashtags for the conference include #calicon14 and #calicon2014

Click here for a storify of Twitter tweets and photos from the event.

Click here for archived Twitter tweets from the event, in .csv format.

HT @rgranat

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Special Issue on Legal XML and Online Dispute Resolution, of Revista Democracia Digital e Governo Eletrônico

Professor Dr. Pompeu Casanovas and Professor Dr. Immaculada Barral Viñals , have co-edited a special issue on “Legal XML and Online Dispute Resolution,” of Revista Democracia Digital e Governo Eletrônico , no. 10 (2014).

Here is a description of the issue, from the editors’ introductory essay:

[...] We have divided this edition into three parts: (y) Law, Governance and Technology; (ii) Legal XML in context; (iii) Crowdsourcing and Online Dispute Resolution (ODR). [...]

In the first part of the Section, we have grouped some articles focusing on the broader aspects of the relationship between law and technology [...]

The second part of the Section focuses on eXtended Markup Language (XML) for law, or more concisely, Legal XML. This markup language is used to structure metadata of a document (author, content, origin …) and is complemented by the so-called XML-schema, a language which is a W3C standard since 2001 and used to express some constraints on the documents. [...]

The third section, Mediation, ODR and Crowdsourcing, contain the largest body of papers. It is strictly related to the current state of the art. There are some recent collective contributions in this specific field, which reflect discussions at the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) and at the European Parliament [...]

For more details, please see the issue.

HT Pompeu Casanovas

Filed under: Applications, Articles and papers, Policy debates, Technology developments, Technology tools Tagged: Immaculada Barral Viñals, Legal communication, Legal crowdsourcing, Legal informatics, Legal mediation, Legal mediation systems, Legal metadata, Legal metadata standards, Legal structural metadata, Online dispute resolution, Online legal communication, Pompeu Casanovas, Revista Democracia Digital e Governo Eletrônico

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Tech for Justice Hackathon, at Online Dispute Resolution Forum 2014, San Francisco, June 21-22: Links and resources

Tech for Justice Hackathon, at Online Dispute Resolution Forum 2014, is being held 21-22 June 2014, at Code for America’s offices, in San Francisco, California, USA.

Video of some presentations at Day 1 of the event is at: http://ift.tt/1j4EMZ4

The Website for the event is at: http://ift.tt/1liLaRc

Click here for the registration page and the conference schedule.

The Twitter hashtags for the event appear to be #techforjustice and hackthelaw

The Twitter account for the event appears to be @techforjustice

Click here for archived Twitter tweets from Days 1 and 2 of the event, in .csv format.

Here is a description of the event from the registration page:

[...] ODR2014 is proud to host the first ever dispute resolution hackathon, where participants will spend the weekend of June 21-22nd tackling problems within [several] thematic areas, and produce prototypes that will be curated and presented to audiences at ODR2014’s UC Hastings event. [...]

Here are the thematic areas that are listed on the registration page:

collaborative economy

privacy

cyberbullying & harassment

healthcare dispute management

environment – reporting and acting on environmental abuse through crowdsourcing mechanisms

intellectual property

landlord & tenancy – housing issues

Projects developed at the event are scheduled to be presented again at ODR 2014 on 25 June.

For more details, please see the registration page.

HT @darin_thompson

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ReInvent Law London 2014: Storify, tweets, and resources

ReInvent Law London 2014 , a conference featuring presentations on "law + technology + innovation + entrepreneurship," was held 20 June 2014, at the University of Westminster Law School in London.

The conference was organized by Professor Renee Newman Knake of Michigan State University College of Law, and Professor Dr. Lisa Webley of the University of Westminster.

The conference Website is at: reinventlawlondon.com/

The conference speakers are listed at: http://ift.tt/Td9RDf

The conference schedule is at: http://ift.tt/Td9RDg

The Twitter hashtags for the event include #reinventlaw and #reinventlawlondon

Click here for a storify of Twitter tweets and photos from the conference.

Click here for archived Twitter tweets from the conference, in .csv format.

Information about the conference is also being posted on the ReInvent Law Lab’s Twitter feed: @ReInventLaw

For more resources about this event, please see the comments to this post.

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Reinvent Law London 2014: 20 June 2014: Links and resources

ReInvent Law London 2014 , a conference featuring presentations on "law + technology + innovation + entrepreneurship," is being held 20 June 2014, at the University of Westminster Law School.

The conference has been organized by Professor Renee Newman Knake of Michigan State University College of Law, and Professor Dr. Lisa Webley of the University of Westminster.

The conference speakers are listed at: http://ift.tt/Td9RDf

The conference schedule is at: http://ift.tt/Td9RDg

The Twitter hashtags for the event include #reinventlaw and #reinventlawlondon

Information about the conference is also being posted on the ReInvent Law Lab’s Twitter feed: @ReInventLaw

Click here for a storify of Twitter tweets and photos from the conference.

Click here for archived Twitter tweets from the conference, in .csv format.

HT @ReInventLaw