Analyzing high volumes of German court decisions in an interdisciplinary class of law and computer science students
Publication Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
1-2020
Abstract
Both access to court decisions and collaboration of lawyers and computer scientists are limited in Germany. The University of Hamburg and Bucerius Law School join forces to address these issues as described in the introduction. The second part of this chapter gives an overview of access to court decisions in Germany. In the next part we describe a didactic concept to provide students of both fields with fundamental knowledge and an experience of collaboration with people from the other domain. In the final part, the chapter provides details of one project executed in one of the classes based on this concept. The project consists of a rule-based information extraction, a machine learning-based outcome classification and a statistical description of 56,288 decisions of the highest German civil and criminal law.
Discipline
Science and Technology Law
Research Areas
Innovation, Technology and the Law
Publication
Computational legal studies
Editor
WHALEN, Ryan
First Page
328
Last Page
344
ISBN
9781788977449
Identifier
10.4337/9781788977456.00020
Publisher
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.
Citation
BECKEDORF, Janis; HARTUNG, Dirk; and SITTIG, Phillip.
Analyzing high volumes of German court decisions in an interdisciplinary class of law and computer science students. (2020). Computational legal studies. 328-344.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/4532