Stanford Intellectual Property Exchange (SIPX)
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.
Stanford Online Proxy Reporting Initiative (SOPRI)
The Stanford Online Proxy Initiative aims to greatly simplify the proxy reporting process by providing an online system through which corporations can more easily gather and report proxy information, and shareholders as well as the public at large can more easily access the information via the web. The system will be based on a real-time reporting, structured database that will be continuously updated by the corporate officers in control of the relevant information. This will create a dynamic depository of disclosure items residing in regulation S-K which can be tracked by corporate officers and used in different contexts of corporate reporting. The system will also offer a dynamically adjusting online questionnaire for directors which will allow directors to report their proxy relevant information for all corporations they are affiliated with. An essential, distinguishing feature of the system is its reliance on a formal language for annotating proxy relevant information, which will make it easier to retrieve relevant information. Ultimately, the database will fulfill the need for efficient reporting of proxy information which will make corporations more efficient as well as transparent, which will in turn strengthen investor confidence as well as the public’s confidence in the marketplace.
For more information, please read "Reinventing the Securities Disclosure Regime: Online Questionnaires as Substitutes for Form-Based Filings" by Joseph A. Grundfest and Alan L. Beller
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.
Autonomous Intelligent Cyber Entity (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.
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.
For more information, please visit Project CALC.
Jureeka.org
Jureeka.org is an open, web-based platform that seeks to expand public access to legal information by allowing specialists to automate their knowledge. It allows lawyers, law students, and other subject matter experts to represent their knowledge as if-then rules. Jureeka then uses the rules to generate interviews, which present the relevant topic in a digestible manner. The system lets the public squeeze answers out of complicated legal source material in a simple way. As a repository of legal expertise, Jureeka lets specialists work collaboratively to develop knowledge bases rapidly in a wiki-like fashion. As a public interest project, Jureeka is designed to address the lack of freely available, practical legal modeling tools and hopes to encourage the proliferation of computational legal systems and embedded legal knowledge.
For more information, please visit Jureeka.org.
