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Computational Law Research and Development
This open public research and development site explores the emerging field of computational law and
legal informatics as social science, technical capability and business innovation. This site is curated
by MIT Media Lab's Dazza Greenwood as part of Prof. Alex "Sandy" Pentland's MIT Human
Dynamics Lab work on Social Physics and Connection Science, with emphasis on the legal and policy dimensions
of big data and personal data markets and ecologies.
The Fully Automated Legal Entity Prototype
For more information: https://law.mit.edu/automated-credit-union
To request updates or get involved: contact us
How Can Blockchain Enable People to Own Their
Individual Identity and Personal Data?
Keynote address by Sam Cassatt, of ConsenSys, at the MIT/law Blockchain Legal Intensive demo
night at the Media Lab.
What is Computable Law?
Blockchain Legal Intensive
A month-long PrototypeJam at http://MIT.edu/law/blockchain
Research Spotlight: Temporal Public Data Exploration
of US Code
Use the below interactive public data visualization tool to compare the rate of change in each title
of the US Code. This visualization tool is being shared now as an example of how law can be
presented as data in a way that enables any person to do basic data exploration. Note however, the
underlying data is still in the process of being cleaned and not yet reliable as an accurate measure.
Ongoing Research: Uniform Law Adoption Analytics
There are many facets of the law to which data science and computational legal science methods can
be applies and many aspects of such science that can be applied to any given facet of the law. One of
the promising entry points being pursued by the Legal Science research team here at the MIT Media
Lab is with an important body of statutes known as "Uniform Law". The #LegalScience research
team is now commencing a research study to explore the data and systems comprising uniform laws
of the states and territories of the United States.
Preliminary Uniforn Law Analytics and Visualizations
Please Share Your Comments/Questions/Ideas?
For more information:
Law.MIT.edu Google+ Page
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MIT Human Dynamics GitHub Repositories: FreeLaw and System Rules
Other relevant resources:
o Big Data Privacy Book: Big Data Legal Frameworks and the Public Good
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Individual Identity Control: A Second Look at IAuth for Business/Legal/Technical Integrated
User-Centered Personal Data Control
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