Legal Software: Neocodex Project

Here is an update on the Neocodex Project , announced last year by Dr. Sergio Puig of Stanford University and Dr. Enric Torrents of the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

The project was announced in Puig and Torrents’s article entitled The Case for Linking World Law Data .

According to a description of the project posted on YouTube on 10 February 2014, the Neocodex Project:

is a collaboration between researchers and professors from Stanford Law School, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Université Pierre et Marie Curie and other institutions to develop open source technology for integrating, analyzing and making available information from all international courts and national jurisdictions in open linked data standards, including the automated processing, analysis and visualization of social networks (neutrals, litigants, and other entities), semantic networks (citations, case-law contents, legal knowledge) and the publication of corpus collections with added metadata.

The project has a Twitter account: @hackthelawcode

The project has posted a new video to YouTube: Lady Justice Experiment .

The project is seeking crowdfunding, on the experiment.com platform.

The project held a legal hackathon last week in London, which was part of Open Data Day: Neocodex Open Law Challenge .

The project is directing those who want more information to go to Dr. Puig’s Website, to join the Open Law Index email list, or to contact Dr. Puig or Dr. Torrents.

HT @hackthelawcode