I first embarked on work at the boundary of NLP and Law around 2008, with @msurd, @nmramesh, Josh Walker, George Gregory, & Mark Lemley. We wrote papers like:

I first embarked on work at the boundary of NLP and Law around 2008, with @msurd, @nmramesh, Josh Walker, George Gregory, & Mark Lemley. We wrote papers like:
https://t.co/U0pXMcjZ5b ,
launched a startup, @LexMachina, and our data contributed to discussion and reform of patenting during the @BarackObama administration:
https://t.co/kHCmWdWuly .

But, overall, honestly, very few people were interested in using empirical AI/ML/NLP techniques to study Law around 2010….

It’s wonderful to see how things have changed and grown during the last 15 years! Especially the last 5.

https://bender.layer3.press/articles/019f88b5-28a4-0f40-738b-218ddcc2e0e1