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The Newsletter of the Carnegie Mellon University
Pre-Law Program
Volume 9, Issue 3
November 8, 2018
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Message from Dr. Devine
Dear pre-law students,
A new law-related course will be offered next semester on "Applied Legal Analytics and Artificial Intelligence." It is being co-designed, and will be co-taught, by Dr. Matthias Grabmair of the Language Technologies Institute here at CMU, and Professor Kevin Ashley of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. The course is a joint effort between Pitt Law and LTI and, and the faculty are soliciting students from both schools, including CMU undergraduates.
Course topics in will include machine learning and natural language applied to legal data, computational models of legal reasoning, and selected legal issues that relate to AI technologies. Students should come from either a (pre-) law background with a strong interest in gaining practical experience with legal analytics, or from a technical discipline with an equally strong interest in tackling the challenges posed by legal analytics tasks and data.
- Course number: forthcoming
- CMU units: 12
You can view the course website here.
Dr. Grabmair and Professor Ashley will hold an information session about this course from 5-6 PM on Tuesday, November 13 (location to be announced). All interested students are invited to attend.
If you have questions about the course, or have an interest but cannot attend the 11/13 meeting, you may contact Dr. Grabmair at [email protected].
Sincerely,
Dr. Devine
Prelaw Advisor
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