We are pleased to inform you that Dr. Radboud Winkels (Leibniz Center for Law, University of Amsterdam) is coming to present in our Governance Analytics Seminar on 30 May starting from 12:15 pm at the University of Paris-Dauphine, room P303.Title : Computational Legal Network Analysis
Introduction of Prof. Winkels:
Radboud G.F. Winkels is associate professor in Computer Science and Law at the “Leibniz Center for Law” (LCL) of the Faculty of Law of the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands and dean of the PPLE college.
He started his academic career as a student in psychology at the University of Amsterdam. In April 1987 he received his Master’s Degree (with honours) in Artificial Intelligence. Since then he has been working as a full-time AI-researcher at the University of Amsterdam, first at the department of « Social Science Informatics » (now Human-Computer Studies Lab) and since March 1989 at the department of Law and Computer Science (now LCL), where he is now senior lecturer/associate professor. In this last capacity he is also a participant in the research school SIKS. His research deals with Intelligent Learning Environments, and Artificial Intelligence and Law.
Legal network analysis
Sources of Law form a large and growing network. Legislation is full of internal and external references, case law cites other case law and refers to legislation, legal doctrine and commentaries cite both case law and legislation and possibly other commentaries. This reserarch is aimed at trying to exploit this network structure to help (legal) practitioners and legal scholars. We address questions like: Can we use network features to determine authority of cases? Can we use it to assess the impact of planned legislative changes? Can we exploit the network structure to suggests useful sources of law to a practioner given a particular item, in focus? Can legal scholars use netweork analysis techniques to discover breaches in lines of thinking of courts?
Professor Winkels will give us a lecture on computational legal network analysis and disucss some applications in social sciences. Anyone interested in inter-disciplianary research on social sciences, legal studies and computer science should not miss it.
If you’d like us to provide a sandwich for you, please confirm your attendance by 26 May 2017, through the following online-form :
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Speaker’s website: http://www.leibnizcenter.org/~
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