Legal Methods II: Machine Learning and Law

This is a one-week immersive course that studies the application of emerging tools of machine learning to legal practice and research. In the last two decades, legal practice and research have been rapidly transformed by the availability and utilization of quantitative data. This trend should not be surprising, since the field of data science has also been quickly expanding over this same period of time to encompass new techniques and definitions of what data can mean or can be. The goal of this one-week course is to provide an overview of central topics typically implicated by the application of data science to law – one that touches on statistics, econometrics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.