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Salamanca and van Eechoud: Open Legal Data for Europe: Report on...
Olivia Salamanca and Mireille van Eechoud have posted Open Legal Data for Europe, a report on a workshop organized by openlaws.eu and LAPSI, at the University of Amsterdam, 4 September 2014. Here is a...
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Hwang: The Legal Innovation Defense Fund
Tim Hwang of the Data and Society Institute invites participation in a new project: The Legal Innovation Defense (LID) Fund, described in a new post at Robot Robot and Hwang. Here are excerpts from the...
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Parelon: New legislative crowdsourcing platform for Lazio, Italy
Parelon is a new online legislative system of Regional Council of Lazio, Italy, that permits crowdsourcing of legislative drafting. Parelon is the subject of a new article in Wired Italy: Guido Romeo:...
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UK Parliament Hackathon 2014: Results, links, and resources
UK Parliament Hack 2014, called Accountability Hack, was held 8-9 November 2014 at the National Audit Office in London. Results of the event, consisting of 19 projects, are listed at:...
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MIT Legal PrototypeJam, 14-16 November 2014, Boston, Massachusetts: Links and...
MIT Legal PrototypeJam is being held 14-16 November 2014, at District Hall in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. The Webpage for the event is at: https://ecitizen.mit.edu/prototypejam The blog for the event...
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Open Law Legal Hacking Project: Presentations of results
Presentations of technology projects developed as part of the Open Law legal hacking project were given at an event held 11 December 2014 at DILA in Paris. Videos of the presentations are available at:...
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Open Law Hacking Project: Results, storify, links, and resources
Results of Open Law — an extended legal hacking project — were announced at a ceremony at DILA in Paris on 17 December 2014. The winning applications were: First prize: DataAsso, developed by Marc...
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Sheridan: Using Data to Understand How the Statute Book Works
John Sheridan of The National Archives has published Using Data to Understand How the Statute Book Works, Legal Information Management, 14, 244-248 (2014). Here is the abstract: The statute book is a...
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Call for participation: Legislative Hackathon at Harvard, January 30-February...
A call for participation has been issued for #Hack4Congress: A “Not-Just-for-Technologists” Event to Fix Congress with the OpenGov Foundation — a legislative hackathon — which is scheduled to be held...
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Greenwood: Law Itself is the Killer Blockchain App
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...
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