law.MIT.edu Research and Development
- Main Site: http://law.MIT.edu
- GitHub Pages: http://humandynamics.github.io/law.MIT.edu
- GitHub Wiki: https://github.com/HumanDynamics/law.MIT.edu/wiki
MIT/law Purpose, Goals and Intended Outcomes
Scientist, MIT Media Lab
Founder, CIVICS.com
Founder/Director, Brooklyn Law Incubator & Policy Clinic
Faculty Chair and Innovation Catalyst, Center for Urban Business Entrepreneurship
Modernizing Laws & Legal Systems In the Age of Continuously Connected Computational Systems
[also available in table form]
A. Key Growing Challenges: Algorithmic systems automating key resource decisions & other processes
B. How Does the Law Apply: Transparancy, governance, accountability & the continued role of human beings
A. Key Growing Challenges: Tracking and control of personal data, activities, interactions & choices
B. How Does the Law Apply: Zones of private, unmetered, unfettered consideration of content, communication, choice & consent
A. Key Growing Challenges: Valuation & exchange of digital assets through networks, blockchains etc
B. How Does the Law Apply: Clear title verifying ownership rights to use, change, grant/revoke access, transfer & destroy property
[Unstable Draft/ 4. Happiness:
A. Key Growing Challenges: ?
B. How Does the Law Apply: ? [/Unstable draft
A. The MIT Human Dynamics Lab to:
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Propegate widespread, valid and reliable legal foundations for personal data ownership and control by catalyzing a New Deal on Data
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Share the benefits and hone the science of social physics through application of the methods to the law and the field of law
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... through R&D leading to open source standards, reference implementations and deployment of working software or other systems]
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... through convening, community building, engaging in public discussion, rapidly or simulteneously publishing advances and ideas...]
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... through learning, scholarship, inquiry and free academic expression] /Unstable Draft]
B. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology to:
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Perform it's societal mission of advancement & modernization to law and the field of law
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Collaborate with civic hackers of Code for America, Legal Hackers, Meetups and others to hack the law and the field of law
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...Expertly & professionally adopts, applies or adapts data science & analytics]
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...Builds stable networks of efficient, fair and enduring jurisprudential systems and services]
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Provides usable interfaces to discover, explore, cite, comment upon and download any or all public laws and related public information
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Provides automated legal services or advice of practitioners through confidential means that are accessible to all
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Provides quality advice and services as a trustworthy fiduciary in professional practice & in the public interest /Unstable Draft]
[Unstable Draft/ A. ...law.MIT.edu publishing, dissemination and online collaboration...
B. ...teaching and academic scholarship: graduate seminars, IAP course, book chapters, etc...
C. ...Legal hackathons, unconferences, etc and convening MIT/law Summit and Unconference, 2016 May 5 & 6...
D. ...actively recruiting key legal practitioners, academics, researchers, etc... /Unstable Draft]
Key Growing Challenges: | How Does the Law Address: | |
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Life | Algorithmic systems automating key resource decisions & other processes | Transparency, governance, accountability & the continued role of human beings |
Liberty | Tracking and control of personal data, activities, interactions & choices | Zones of private, free access to and consideration of public information, communication, choice & consent |
Property | Valuation & exchange of digital assets through networks, blockchains etc | Clear title verifying ownership rights to use, protect, manage, change, transfer & destroy property |