Legal Methods II: Machine Learning and Law
Course Information
- Course Number
- L6130
- Curriculum Level
- Foundation
- Areas of Study
- Corporate Law, Business, and Finance, Intellectual Property and Technology, Interdisciplinary Legal Studies, Lawyering
- Type
- Lecture
- Additional Attributes
- Experiential Credit
Section 001 Information
Instructor
Section Description
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.
- School Year & Semester
- January 2024
- Dates
- January 8 - January 12
- Location
- WJWH 309
- Schedule
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Class meets on
- Monday
- Tuesday
- Wednesday
- Thursday
- Friday
- Dates
- January 8 - January 12
- Location
- WJWH 309
- Schedule
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Class meets on
- Monday
- Tuesday
- Wednesday
- Thursday
- Friday
- Points
- 1
- Method of Evaluation
- Other
- J.D Writing Credit?
- No
Learning Outcomes
- Primary
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- At the end of the course, students will have acquired understanding of and/or facility in doctrinal analysis, including close reading of cases and precedents, and application to facts
- At the end of the course, students will have acquired understanding of and/or facility in use of other disciplines in the analysis of legal problems and institutions, e.g., philosophy; economics,other social sciences; and cultural studies
- Academic research and writing
- At the end of the course, students will have acquired understanding of and/or facility in transactional design and value creation
- Legal research and writing
- Collaboration and/or teamwork
- Litigation planning
Course Limitations
- Instructor Pre-requisites
- None
- Instructor Co-Requisites
- None
- Requires Permission
- No
- Recommended Courses
- None
- Other Limitations
- None