Open Algorithms in the Law - my talk at the Open Access Symposium 2015 at the University of North Texas Law School (https://openaccess.unt.edu/symposium/2015) Video here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLnJXKM6toM

1. John Mayer
Executive Director
Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction
jmayer@cali.org

10. Hypothesis
An increasing amount of interaction with legal
services (lawyers, courts, government
administration, etc.) will involve automated
systems

11. Hypothesis
An increasing amount of interaction with legal
services (lawyers, courts, government
administration, etc.) will involve automated
systems

12. Hypothesis
An increasing amount of interaction with legal
services (lawyers, courts, government
administration, etc.) will involve automated
systems
Decision Trees
Expert Systems
Artificial Intelligence

13. Law instantiated into software code
(hopefully) by a lawyer or other
subject matter expert

14. Law instantiated into software code
(hopefully) by a lawyer or other
subject matter expert…
…open access to the law is only the
beginning.

15. For example…

24. http://www.disclosuredragon.com/

25. http://www.disclosuredragon.com/

26. https://www.nycourts.gov/CourtHelp/DIY/index.shtml

27. https://www.nycourts.gov/CourtHelp/DIY/index.shtml

28. https://www.nycourts.gov/CourtHelp/DIY/index.shtml

29. Legal aid organizations, courts, and law schools
use A2J Author to create “A2J Guided Interviews”
to collect data from end-users one piece at a time.

31. U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

32. 2,600,716 1,544,759

35. http://a2jclinic.classcaster.net/

36. Law instantiated into software code
(hopefully) by a lawyer or other
subject matter expert

42. +
Open Law (all of it!)

43. api.law.gov

44. api.law.gov
+

45. api.law.gov

46. api.law.gov

47. api.law.gov
+

48. api.law.gov
+

50. Uniform citation system
Automated checks
api to all law
version control/history

51. Uniform citation system
Automated checks
api to all law
version control/history
TRANSPARENCY

54. http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/19/5419854/the-minority-
report-this-computer-predicts-crime-but-is-it-racist

55. http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/19/5419854/the-minority-
report-this-computer-predicts-crime-but-is-it-racist

56. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2015/04/the_dang
ers_of_letting_algorithms_enforce_policy.single.html

59. John Mayer
Executive Director
Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction
jmayer@cali.org