Stanford Computational Law Report

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About

The Computational Law Report is an agile, new media online publication that explores the ways that law and legal processes can be reimagined and engineered as computational systems. The Report features:

• Written content (such as peer-reviewed articles, essays, and posts);
• Rich media content (such as videos, podcasts, visualizations, etc); and
• Reproducible software and data projects (such as computational law apps, automated processes, data science projects, games, etc)

The Report is published and edited by academics, researchers, and practitioners affiliated with law.mit.edu and law.stanford.edu/computational-law-report. The Report fills a critical need for reputable, responsive, and neutral analysis of emerging computational law applications and thought leadership.

Our Goals

• Reimagine law as something dynamic, interoperable, and adaptive
• Cultivate an open discussion at the intersection of law and computation
• Create space for experimenting with new legal technologies

Submissions

At the Stanford Computational Law Report, we recognize that the law and legal processes are increasingly represented in new and different forms. As a response to that, our publication accepts all varieties of original content. We accept written content in the form of articles (7,500+ words), essays (2,500 – 7,499 words), comments (1,000 – 2,499 words) and posts (under 1,000 words). We accept rich media content in a variety of formats (e.g., video, audio, animations, graphics, visualizations, etc). We also accept a variety of reproducible software and data projects (e.g. computational law apps, automated processes, data science, visualizations, games, etc). The future of law should be open and available to everyone for free. To that end, all of our content is open-sourced under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License. Changes to the law are happening all the time. To adapt to these changes, our editorial team publishes content in periodic releases. We will publish your content as soon as it is ready, on a rolling submission schedule.

Guidelines for Authors

American English or Commonwealth English are fine so long as there is consistency. Citation format is up to authors (your paper, your way) so long as there is consistency. Capitalize all words in headings including hyphenated words, except injunctions, articles, and prepositions. First and last words in the title are always capitalized. Check using http://titlecapitalization.com/.  Define abbreviations the first time they are mentioned in the abstract, text; also the first time they are mentioned in a table or figure. Capitalize words such as Group, Section, Method, etc. if followed by a number, e.g. “In Group 4, five patients…” The ‘th’ in 19th or 20th should NOT be written in superscript. Write don’t, can’t… in full, i.e. do not, cannot. If a reference is written at the beginning of a sentence, e.g. “[12] studied…”, insert the author’s name before the reference number, e.g. “Smith [12] studied” or write “The authors of [13] studied.