Projects

Project CALC (Computer Assisted Legal Compliance)

Project CALC explores the application of computational law – the representation of legal rules in electronic form — within the field of building design and construction. CALC will examine the degree to which existing laws governing the domain of building design can modeled within computer systems and made to interact with systems currently used in the field. Existing building construction projects are covered by numerous laws and regulations, including local building codes, federal environmental rules, and accessibility laws such as the Americans With Disabilities Act. The project will examine whether computer systems can assist design professionals in knowing and complying with these rules. CALC will also explore legal theoretical problems related to the representation of laws in computer systems, and propose principles for selecting and creating such laws. CALC is a interdisciplinary effort involving researchers and research from the fields of law, computer science, and civil engineering.

 

Digital Department

The focus of the Digital Department project is Policy Oriented Enterprise Management, i.e. automated enterprise management based on semantic data modelling, integrated management and dissemination of enterprise data, and the explicit representation and use of enterprise policies, governmental regulations, and interorganizational contracts. The Digital Department is a living laboratory within which we are studying how computational law can be used within and between organizations.

 

Stanford Intellectual Property Exchange (IPX)

A team of leading intellectual property lawyers and computer scientists seek to create and deploy an online intellectual property exchange (IPX), with robust commercial and non-commercial functionalities, which is equally accessible to individual content creators, large media companies, consumers, and others. The system will massively reduce legal transaction costs for intellectual property exchanges. It will obviate, or eliminate the need for live legal consultation for platform-based transactions. IPX is a literal “marketplace of ideas,” and their myriad instantiations.

 

Legal Entity Resolution

Accurately identifying companies, and mapping their relations, is in practice as computationally difficult as it is legally important – particularly vis-ˆ-vis ephemeral, heterogenous data on the Web. Focusing on this precursor to advanced e-commerce exchange, Stanford University seeks to materially improve the state of the art for representing corporate identities and relationships.

 

AiCE

This project explores the commercial and legal aspects/implications of an intelligent cyberagent and its evolution into an autonomous intelligent cyber entity (AiCE, pronounced “ice”).  It evaluates and builds functional and operational schemas for standardizing AiCE with an emphasis on reducing waste of judicial resources, increasing e-commerce transactional certainty and expanding into new frontiers for e-commerce interactivity on B2B, B2C and C2C levels.