Wednesday 10 October
9:45 am Arrivals and registration
10:00 *PUBLIC LECTURE*
- New Frontiers in Legal Research: Network Analysis and Machine Learning
Daniel Katz, Chicago Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology
Chair: Kristin Bergtora Sandvik, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo
Welcome: Malcolm Langford, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo
11:15 Session 1. Courts and judicial behavior
Chair: Malcolm Langford, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo
- Looking into the Crystal Ball: Using Machine Learning to Predict Decisions of the European Court of Human Rights
Masha Medvedeva, Department of Legal Methods, University of Groningen* - Ideas Have Consequences: The Impact of Law and Economics on American Justice
Daniel L. Chen, Toulouse School of Economics, University of Toulouse Capitole* - Case-law expansion as measured by word embeddings
Silje Synnøve Lyder Hermansen, Pluricourts, University of Oslo
12:45 Lunch
13:30 Session 2. Legal Disparities and Diffusion
Chair: Øyvind Stiansen, Pluricourts, University of Oslo
- Motivated Reasoning in the Field: Polarization in Precedent, Prose, Vote, and Retirement in U.S. Circuit Courts, 1800-2013
Daniel L. Chen, Toulouse School of Economics, University of Toulouse Capitole* - The Unequal Reach of Transnational Legal Institutions: Mapping, Predicting and Explaining Spatial Disparities in EU Law Use
Arthur Dyevre, Centre for Legal Theory and Empirical Jurisprudence, KU Leuven - Citations Analysis with Network Centrality Measures: Perspectives From Singapore
Jerrold Soh Tsin Howe, School of Law, Singapore Management University
15:00 Coffee
15:15 Session 3. Criminal Justice System
Chair: Mareile Kaufmann, Dept. of Criminology & Sociology of Law, Uni. of Oslo
- From Evidence to Proof: Social Network Analysis in Italian Criminal Courts of Justice
Roberto Musotto, Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, CCJS, School of Law, University of Leeds - Criminal justice in Norway: Using network analysis
Synøve Andersen, SSB and University of Oslo - Security networks: power, brokerage and information Exchange
Martin Nøkleberg, Dept. of Criminology and Sociology of Law, University of Oslo - Predicting Enemies: Network Analysis and Machine Learning in Law
Ashley Deeks, School of Law, University of Virginia
17:15 Drinks reception
19:00 Dinner
Thursday 11 October
8:45 Coffee
09:00 Session 4. Corporate and Investment Law
Chair: Tobias Mahler, NRCLL, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo
- A Network Theory of Patentability: Towards an Empirical Measure of Patent Nonobviousness
Ryan Whalen, Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong - Arbitrators, Lawyers and Law Firms: A Network Analysis of Power and Conflicts
Daniel Behn, Pluricourts, University of Oslo
Runar Lie, Pluricourts, University of Oslo - Machine learning in large law firms
Tale Skjølsvik, Dept of Information Technology, Oslo Metropolitan University
Karl Joachim Breunig, Oslo Business School, Oslo Metropolitan University - Who Writes Arbitral Awards? A Computational Analysis of Investment Treaty Arbitration
Malcolm Langford, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo*
Daniel Behn, Pluricourts, University of Oslo
10:30 Coffee
10:45 Session 5. Sustainable Development
Chair: Maja van der Velden, Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo
- Policy hotspots enabling sustainability in EU business and financial market Law
Hanna Ahlström, Department of Private Law, University of Oslo - Machine Learning for Development: Predictions and Suggestions for achieving SDG8
Patricia Alaroker, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo
Kumar Aman, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo*
Lelia Marcău, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo - The Fragmented Convergence: A Study of the Evolution of Renewable Energy Certificates in European Countries, India and South Africa
Daniel Arnesson, Scandinavian Inst. of Maritime Law, University of Oslo
12:30 Lunch
13:00 Closing remarks and discussion