About the Journal
The Journal of Cross-disciplinary Research in Computational Law (CRCL) invites excellence in law, computer science and other relevant disciplines with a focus on two types of ‘legal technologies’: (1) data-driven (e.g. predictive analytics, ‘intelligent’ search) and (2) code-driven (e.g. smart contracts, algorithmic decision-making (ADM), legal expert systems), and (3) their hybrids (e.g. code-driven decision-making based on data-driven research).
Legal practice is where computational law will be resisted, used or even fostered. CRCL wishes to raise questions as to (1) when the introduction of legal technologies should be resisted and on what grounds, (2) how and under what conditions they can be integrated into the practice of law and legal research and (3) how their integration may inform, erode or enhance legal protection and the rule of law.
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CALL for copy editors and junior managing editors for CRCL
We are currently looking for PhD students and postdoctoral researchers in the domain of 'law and technology', who are fluent in English, willing to join the editorial team as copyeditors and/or junior managing editors.
For more information, see the news item here.
Special issue on the Future of Computational Law
Introduction: On 20-21 November 2024 the second International Conference on Cross-Disciplinary Research in Computational Law (CRCL23) hosted the Symposium on The Future of Computational Law. A range of invited thought leaders in this domain presented their invited position paper on the subject: Lyria Bennett Moses, Floris Bex, Natali Byrom, MireilleHildebrandt, Sayash Kapoor & Peter Henderson & Arvind Narayanan, Sarah Lawsky, Denis Merigoux and Frank Pasquale & Gianclaudio Malgieri. In this special issue we publish their papers, hoping to further nourish key conversations between lawyers and legal scholars and developers and computer scientists. The first paper, by Mireille Hildebrandt comments on the themes and the content of the papers after offering an analysis of ‘the future of computational law’ and of its relation to ’the rule of law’.