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Crowd Arbitration: Crowdsourced Dispute Resolution Part II
April 24, 2014
Crowdsourcing is a potential source of substantial benefits to dispute resolution. The main reason for these benefits is that crowdsourcing easily pools together the views of a large amount of people, far more than could be collected into a single room for arbitration or a courtroom. By moving dispute resolution into the virtual space, the physical limitations of dispute resolution are eliminated. As experiments with Amazon’s Mechanical Turk crowd intelligence platform show, crowdsourcing can be extremely...
April 24, 2014
Crowdsourcing is a potential source of substantial benefits to dispute resolution. The main reason for these benefits is that crowdsourcing easily pools together the views of a large amount of people, far more than could be collected into a single room for arbitration or a courtroom. By moving dispute resolution into the virtual space, the physical limitations of dispute resolution are eliminated. As experiments with Amazon’s Mechanical Turk crowd intelligence platform show, crowdsourcing can be extremely...
Crowd Arbitration: Crowdsourced Dispute Resolution Part I
April 24, 2014
Meaningful artificial intelligence is still a far-away technology. But crowdsourced intelligence, which harnesses the collective...
April 24, 2014
Meaningful artificial intelligence is still a far-away technology. But crowdsourced intelligence, which harnesses the collective...
Two Sites Offer Platforms for Crowdsourced Legal Research
January 7, 2014
If two heads are better than one, then why should legal research be a solitary pursuit? What if you could put three or four or even dozens of heads to the task? If you could tap into a collective, collaborative research process, it seems fair to say, you could complete your work more quickly and be more confident of your conclusions. Enabling just that kind of crowdsourced legal research is the goal of two innovative websites. But they go at it from different directions. Casetext starts with...
January 7, 2014
If two heads are better than one, then why should legal research be a solitary pursuit? What if you could put three or four or even dozens of heads to the task? If you could tap into a collective, collaborative research process, it seems fair to say, you could complete your work more quickly and be more confident of your conclusions. Enabling just that kind of crowdsourced legal research is the goal of two innovative websites. But they go at it from different directions. Casetext starts with...
New Legal Research Site Combines Case Law with Crowdsourcing
August 5, 2013
Imagine if you could combine a full-text case law library for research with crowdsourced editing and annotating in the style of Wikipedia and user rankings of annotations and references in the style of a site such as Digg? That, roughly speaking, is the idea behind Casetext, an innovative legal research site launched this week that provides free access to court opinions together with a platform for crowdsourcing references and annotations. Casetext is the brainchild of two lawyers, Jake...
August 5, 2013
Imagine if you could combine a full-text case law library for research with crowdsourced editing and annotating in the style of Wikipedia and user rankings of annotations and references in the style of a site such as Digg? That, roughly speaking, is the idea behind Casetext, an innovative legal research site launched this week that provides free access to court opinions together with a platform for crowdsourcing references and annotations. Casetext is the brainchild of two lawyers, Jake...
