Month: May 2019

Bar-Ilan law faculty is looking for an instructor to teach a new course on NLP for legal-tech in an MA program in legal studies which is directed to computer science and engineering graduates:

Core requirements

• Ph.D. in computer science or related field ·
• Strong NLP background
• Ability to co-op with lectures from Bar-Ilan law faculty that will provide background on legal tech and how it is embedded in legal practice and user needs
• Ability to co-op (and to initiate contact) with people from the legal tech industry.
  • Law people – customer perspective/needs, people who experienced legal tech
  • Legal-tech people – use cases from the industry

Course content

This is a new NLP course that will provide students the basic theoretical foundation of NLP techniques along with practical NLP usage in the legaltech context. Emphasis will be on hands-on exercises and examples drawing on legal texts (eg, statutes, case law).

Hebrew is highly desired – at least for some of the exercises.

Possible topics/examples to be included:

• Classify/cluster similar judges
• Extract citations
• Classify patents to domains
• Terms and conditions
• Application of deep learning solutions
• How AI + NLP models can deal with legal dilemmas

Course should be planned for 13 weeks * 2 hours;

Will be given in Spring 2020.

Examples

Contact:

Prof Oren Perez: oren.perez@biu.ac.il, Dean of the Faculty of Law at Bar-Ilan University

Dr. Oren Glickman: oren.glickman@biu.ac.il. The Data Science Institute at Bar Ilan University.