Robot judges have long existed as a thought experiment. This article explores the various ways algorithms can be used to assist or automate the judicial decision making process and examines the effects of such applications on litigation and settlement outcomes.

Recent developments in computable contracts have resulted in their increasing popularity and utility. This article explores the expression of contracts in code, outlining the possible implications of drafting in algorithmic form.

The presumption of innocence (POI) is dead and this has resulted in mass pretrial incarceration. This Essay presents original evidence demonstrating that the POI's demise is empirically unjustified. Doctrinally, the POI's demise is attributed to "The Argument that Cries 𝘞𝘰𝘭𝘧𝘪𝘴𝘩."

Rules as Code is a movement that has the potential to transform law in the same way that spreadsheets transformed finance. This article provides an overview of Rules as Code and, through a series of demonstrations, explores the use of Blawx as a tool to modernize rule-making.

This document represents v0.3 of our model privacy principles for digital contact tracing applications and services that leverage personal individual location and proximity data to combat COVID-19.

While contact tracing is fundamentally an epidemiological process, privacy and equity play a large role in improving adoption and mitigating liabilities of these processes. This post includes a playbook to help ensure data collected from contact tracing apps is used responsibly.

The MIT Computational Law Development Goals are an initiative of the Computational Law Report and were developed and refined based on feedback received in the last few months. We hope these serve as the impetus for sustainable innovation and as a catalyst for further discussion.

This document represents our model privacy principles for digital contact tracing applications and services that leverage personal individual location and proximity data to combat COVID-19. We invite feedback and contributions to this ongoing effort.

Amidst all the noise about contact tracing and exposure notification apps, U.S. Digital Response has put together a Model Data Protection Agreement to help ensure an appropriate balance between those who produce data for these apps and those who use data produced by these apps.

COVID-19 has demonstrated a need to transform some processes from analog to digital. This article examines the impact of COVID-19 on modern slavery and outlines some of the harmonized legal, technical, and human-centered solutions that can begin addressing each set of problems.

Privacy rights change over time and with each new technology. This article surveys how these relationships between citizens, governments, and businesses are changing with COVID-19, the availability of GPS and Bluetooth data, and the need to combat the pandemic.

Integrated development environments (IDEs) have long been used by computer programmers as a way to improve efficiencies, reduce mistakes, and standardize outputs. In this essay, Michael Jeffery provides an overview of the ways an IDE could improve the practice of legal drafting.

Dazza and Bryan speak with Joshua Browder, Founder and CEO DoNotPay about his new computational law app that is designed to combat robocalling, and more broadly discuss the growing need for interdisciplinary collaboration between the legal profession and the rest of the economy.

Dazza and Bryan discuss the notion of law as an algorithm throughout our history with Michael Schmitz and Reuben Youngblom, both with CodeX - The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics, on their new podcast, Our Data.

Our faculty sponsor, Prof. Alex "Sandy" Pentland, examines the ways in which law, itself, functions as an algorithm. The legal profession now has an opportunity to transition from being a cost center and a source of friction, to a center for new business and opportunity creation.

Technology changes the ways that people interact with one another. As a result, the roles and competencies required for many professions are evolving. Law is no exception. Cat Moon offers the Delta Model as a tool for legal professionals to understand how adapt to these changes.

Law and computation are often thought of as being two distinct fields. Increasingly, that is not the case. Dan Linna explores the ways a computational approach could help address some of the biggest challenges facing the legal industry.

If we used computational law and were able to redesign a business entity based on new technologies and biologic design principles, would it look like the entities we have now? The RMS-LLC explores how technology, law, and design can help solve for value in new ways.

A reflection on how Computational Law can enable a Legal Tech incorporation processes, legal education, and the implications on the legal profession.