CodeX | Professor Harry Surden Discusses Machine Learning within Law

On October 9, 2014, CodeX: The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics and the Stanford Program in Law, Science & Technology welcomed University of Colorado Law School Associate Professor Harry Surden to campus for a CodeX Speaker Series discussion on Machine Learning within Law.

Surden spoke on current and future applications of machine-learning within law, and explored automation in the context of legal tasks currently performed by attorneys, including predicting the outcomes of legal cases, finding hidden relationships in legal documents and data, electronic discovery, and the automated organization of documents.