851-0761-00L  Building a Robot Judge: Data Science for Decision-Making (Course Project)

SemesterAutumn Semester 2020
LecturersE. Ash
Periodicityyearly recurring course
Language of instructionEnglish
CommentThis is the optional course project for "Building a Robot Judge: Data Science for the Law."

Please register only if attending the lecture course or with consent of the instructor.

Some programming experience in Python is required, and some experience with text mining is highly recommended.


AbstractStudents investigate and implement the relevant machine learning tools for making legal predictions, including regression, classification, and deep neural networks models. This is the extra credit for a larger course project for the course.
ObjectiveIn a semester paper, students (individually or in groups) will conceive and implement their own research project applying natural language tools to legal texts. Some programming experience in Python is required, and some experience with NLP is highly recommended.
ContentStudents will investigate and implement the relevant machine learning tools for making legal predictions, including regression, classification, and deep neural networks models.
We will use these predictions to better understand the operation of the legal system. In a semester project, student groups will conceive and implement a research design for examining this type of empirical research question.