law.MIT.edu's Latest Computational Law Publications and GenAI Outlook for 2024

The law.MIT.edu Computational Law Report is proud to announce the publication of three content releases, as we wrap up 2023 and clear the decks for some very interesting and timely initiatives on generative AI for law in early 2024 (more on that below).

In collaboration with the SMU Centre for Computational Law, the MIT Computational Law Report has published a small collection on "Computational Legal Studies: Past, Present, and Future" available here: https://law.mit.edu/smu-past-present-future

This release includes:

• "Unsupervised Machine Scoring of Free Response Answers—Validated Against Law School Final Exams" by David Colarusso
• "Sharing and Caring: Creating a Culture of Constructive Criticism in Computational Legal Studies" by Corinna Coupette and Dirk Hartung
• "A Language For Legal Discourse is All You Need" by L. Thorne McCarty

We have also published the second part of our "Collected Works on Composable Governance" special release. You can find these newly published works, along with the first batch of articles in this collection here: https://law.mit.edu/composablegovernance

This release includes:

• "Aligning ‘Decentralized Autonomous Organization’ to Precedents in Cybernetics" by Michael Zargham and Kelsie Nabben
• "Decentralized Autonomous Organizations - DAOs: the Convergence of Technology, Law, Governance, and Behavioral Economics" by Andre Guskow Cardoso
• "Relevance of Composable Governance to the space domain and sustainable lunar activities: Re-imagining a Computational Jurisdiction to deal with safety zones on the Moon" by Christophe Bosquillon , and with deep MIT CLR editorial support by Aileen Schultz

And lastly, our more general Release 4.0 contains the varied works related to computational law that we have published since Release 3.0. You can find this general release here: https://law.mit.edu/release4

This release includes:

• "Data Intermediaries: Fourth Amendments, Third Parties, Second Chances, and First Principles" by Jonathan Askin, Brian Fischer, Kristin Kuraishi, and Patrick Lin
• "The Un-Modeled World: Law and the Limits of Machine Learning" by Frank Fagan
• "If we build it, will they come? Developing and distributing digital standards for smart derivatives contracts" by Ciarán McGonagle
• "Trust in a Trustless System: Decentralized, Digital Identity, Customer Protection, and Global Financial Security" by Jonathan Askin, Chynna Foucek, Sydney Abualy, and Alexei Furs
• "The Data Rights Protocol: Threading Privacy Rights into the Internet" by Sebastian Zimmeck
• "Using Digital Contract Negotiations to Build a Brighter Future" by Olga Mack

We want to thank all the authors for sharing their work in this free and open access publication, and express deep gratitude for our editorial team for their tireless efforts!

Looking forward, we are gearing up to add a deeper focus on the profound implications of generative AI for law and legal processes. This will kick-off with the 9th annual law.MIT.edu Computational Law Workshop (a free and open event we do every January), as well as an associated online legal hackathon. It's been a few years since our last legal hackathons, but there is so much innovation now, and such a need for sharing of good ideas and best practices, that it's time to do it again. We'll also be announcing a call for proposed submissions for our next set of published works, which will likewise highlight various aspects of generative AI and law that we believe are relevant, important, and timely. We are also working on updates from the law.MIT.edu Task Force on the Responsible Use of Generative AI for Law. We may have a few more surprises in the works as well!

We will certainly post about these upcoming activities here on LinkedIn as well as on law.MIT.edu, however, if you'd like to receive an email alert with more information on these and other activities and events at law.MIT.edu, just fill out our form at: https://law.mit.edu/contact and check the box for "MIT Computational Law Report updates and announcements".

Until then, we wish you a happy and healthy holiday!