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Resources

Below are the resources listed for the computational law course, feel free to create a pull request and help us improve this list.

Recommended Readings

• Introduction to Computational Law / Legal Hacking / Design Thinking
  • The Market for “Lemons”: Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism by George Akerlof
  • Is Computer Ethics Unique? by Walter Maner
  • Code is Law by Larry Lessig
  • Hacking the Law - TED Radio Hour
  • Computational Law: The Cop in the Backseat by Michael Genesereth
  • What is Design Thinking by IDEO U
  • Legal Education in the Blockchain Revolution by Mark Fenwick, Wulf Kaal, and Erik PM Vermeulen
  • The MIT School of Law? A Perspective on Legal Education in the 21st Century by Dan Katz
  • Artificial Intelligence and Law: An Overview by Harry Surden
• Jurimetrics and quantitative analysis of the law
  • Law as Computation in the Era of Artificial Legal Intelligence. Speaking Law to the Power of Statistics
• Logic and Rules-based AI / expert systems
  • Expert Systems
    • DocAssemble //Open Source Tool
    • DoNotPay
    • Akerman LLP Data Law Center
    • QnA Markup //Open Source Tool
  • Merit order algorithm used in contracts
    • Computable Contracts by Harry Surden
• Machine Learning (Pattern-Based) AI
  • Document Review
    • e-Discovery
    • M&A
    • Client Interviews
  • Quantitative Analysis
    • Machine Learning and Law by Harry Surden
    • Using Machine Learning to Predict Success or Failure in Chapter 13 Bankruptcy Cases by Warren E. Agin
    • A General Approach for Predicting the Behavior of the Supreme Court of the United States by Dan Katz, Michael Bommarito, and Josh Blackman
• Blockchain
  • Decentralized Blockchain Technology and the Rise of Lex Cryptographia by Aaron Wright and Primavera de Filipi
  • What is blockchain?
    • Basics through Cryptozombie Game from the loom Network
  • Cryptocurrency
    • Securities Regulation (coming soon)
  • Smart Contracts
    • Contracts –> [Open Law]
      • Open Sourcing the Law - The Release of OpenLaw Core by Aaron Wright and David Roon
    • Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) –> CryptoKitties/Art
      • Modernizing Art with Blockchains
  • Blockchain Governance
    • Blockchain Governance 101 by Vlad Zamfir

Tools and Tutorials

Featured Tool: Accord Project Smart Legal Contract Template

Special overview and tutorial for MIT Computational Law Course students and invited Legal Hackers: https://youtu.be/gOF3pSZIiQ8

Using Creative Commons licences on YouTube videos

• Here is a quick guide to selecting a creative commons license for your YouTube video: https://open.ed.ac.uk/how-to-guides/how-to-apply-a-cc-license-on-a-publishing-platform-youtubeflickrwordpress/applying-a-cc-licence-on-youtube.
• Here is some more info on using this license for your YouTube videos: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2797468?hl=en.

Telegram Group Chat

• Service Site: telegram.org

This is how we stay in contact during the week of classes.

Download for iOS/Android at your friendly local app store.

• Register using your mobile phone number (this is how you get your token)
• In the settings, be sure to create an @user name and add a photo or other image so we can quickly spot you (or at least your avatar).
• Join at https://t.me/joinchat/HT4a1hFg6GWbPJqtnqWwZg
• Turn off notifications
• Introduce yourself (name/affiliation, quick description of your background and interest, and, optionally, a use case/scenario you would like to discuss in class)

Making Diagrams

• General use case and other diagrams: https://www.draw.io
• Google Docs Drawing Tools: https://support.google.com/docs/answer/179740?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en
• Try it with Google Docs: https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1umWoxzzVGhStpVv7f0v_e8QRgcxQ-bPrpGHyYn-Arq8/edit

Swimlane Diagrams

• Simple data-driven swimlane diagrams: https://swimlanes.io
• More data-driven swimlane diagrams: https://www.websequencediagrams.com
• For more context on the use of swim lane diagrams to describe legal use cases, see: https://github.com/mitmedialab/CoreID/tree/master/diagrams

Using Markdown

• https://github.github.com/gfm
• https://guides.github.com/features/mastering-markdown

HTML to Markdown Converters

• https://domchristie.github.io/turndown
• https://www.browserling.com/tools/html-to-markdown
• Message thread with tools galore: https://talk.commonmark.org/t/is-a-reverse-conversion-html-to-markdown-possible/899/14

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