Advanced Legal Analytics
Volledige vakbeschrijving
Information about the law is stored in legal texts: legislation, administrative decrees, court decisions, and other legal writings. Lawyers use this information to apply and reason about the law, and to predict legal outcomes. Legal reasoning, analysing legal texts, and predicting legal outcomes can also be done, in part, by artificial intelligence (AI). More recently, researchers have developed legal information retrieval systems by effective use of sophisticated machine learning and natural language processing technologies on publicly available legal documents to assist legal practice. The availability of such legal information retrieval systems has created opportunities for improving the efficiency and consistency of existing legal systems. The main challenge for semantic analysis is that legal texts are predominantly unstructured data. In Advanced Legal Analytics, you will learn about the following major topics:
- Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Law
- Cleaning and Pre-processing unstructured legal texts
- Legal Information Retrieval Systems
- Machine Learning for Legal Texts
- Natural Language Processing for Legal Texts
Teaching methods
Lectures and tutorials. Online courses in DataCamp Academic will be used for learning Python programming language.
Doelstellingen van dit vak
Intended Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of the course, a student is able to:
- write regular expressions to retrieve relevant text patterns from a (legal) document;
- apply different steps of the natural language processing pipeline for cleaning and pre-processing (legal) texts;
- apply named entity recognition (NER) models to extract and classify (legal) entities from unstructured texts;
- explain and interpret the results of the exploratory data analysis using correlation and regression;
- apply and evaluate machine learning methods for computational analysis of law and legal prediction; and
- identify and evaluate issues of fairness and bias in Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based legal information retrieval systems
Voorwaarden
Legal Analytics (LAW3025)
Aanbevolen literatuur
- Katz, D. M., Dolin, R., & Bommarito, M. J. (Eds.). (2021). Legal Informatics. Cambridge University Press
- Kelleher, J. D., & Tierney, B. (2018). Data Science. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
- Ashley, Kevin D. (2017). Artificial Intelligence and Legal Analytics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Other recommended reading and literature will be provided during the course.