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Slides from ReInvent Law Silicon Valley Talk

Live from ReInvent Law Silicon Valley, where I gave an Ignite-style talk drawing analogy to law’s future from finance’s past.  Slides embedded below and video forthcoming:

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21st Century Legal Informatics: Part 1, Introduction

   Dan and I have written and spoken on legal informatics many times.  Inevitably these conversations come to the same cut-and-paste list of informatics examples from legal search/retrieval and decision making.  It’s struck me that these examples fall into two

Posted in Finance, Law, Society, Technology

Two new papers on SSRN: Measuring EU integration through sovereign debt & Exploring relationships between headnotes in the Supreme Court

  What do you do with that unfinished paper?  You know, the one that’s 50% there but you don’t have the time to finish.  Or maybe it’s the one that’s 80% there, but you don’t want to deal with the inevitable two

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Deaths per TWh (terawatt-hour) by Energy Type

The chart says it all, with nuclear winning by two orders of magnitude (via ManyEyes).   

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A quick look at #march11 / #saudi tweets

Well, so much for that #march11 #Saudi day of rage.  Whether it was really the "tempest in a teacup" that  Prince Al-Waleed suggested on CNBC (video below, transcript here) or not, the oil complex and Saudi markets seem to have shrugged

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