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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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Marginal Revolution on ideological economist blindspots

Having spent more time than I’d like to recall in rooms with economists, political scientists, and law professors of various stripes and names, this Marginal Revolution post really formalized many of my feelings about current academic research agendae.  That said,

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