EAGER: Piloting a multi-campus training program in algorithmic processes, data analytics and mobile computing for sociolegal scholars

技术的变化正在给法律的研究和实践带来革命性的变化。一代人以前，法学和社会科学学者为法学研究勾勒出一种新的范式，侧重于法律解释和执行中的社会、经济和政治变量。今天，算法过程、数据分析以及无处不在的社交和移动计算为研究法律、规则和社会规范的影响提供了新的机会。这些新的机会促使在法律和社会科学研究中使用新的方法技术。然而，很少有法学和社会科学学者接受过理解这些新的计算过程的培训。这是一个协作、多学科、跨校园网络的试点，旨在规划和培训下一代法律和社会科学学者，了解算法过程、数据分析以及无处不在的社交和移动计算带来的机会。它是为了发展一个教员委员会，新的课程和新的培训活动，主要集中在一个技术，法律和社会暑期学院。目标是发展必要的最新培训，以确保下一代社会法律学者具备利用新的方法技术和新的调查地点的能力。正如对“诉讼中的法律”的考虑改变了法律研究的范式，使其超越了成文的法律注释，进入法官、律师和公民对法律的实际操作和他们在实践中如何理解法律的领域，法律与计算机和其他计算系统之间的接口为社会法律研究提供了新的范式转变的机会。拟议的一系列培训、讲习班和暑期研究所将使法律和社会科学学者有能力制定研究这些新的法律对象和关系的方法。在学年期间，学员将测试交叉培训和协作的方法和形式。更广泛的影响包括培训新的研究人员和帮助现有的法律和社会科学学者重新使用工具；与技术和政策界合作，将法律和社会科学研究应用到他们的活动中；以及促进跨学科、跨校园的合作。

Changes in technology are revolutionizing the study and practice of law. A generation ago, law and social science scholars outlined a new paradigm for legal scholarship, focusing on social, economic and political variables in the interpretation and execution of the law. Today, algorithmic processes, data analytics and ubiquitous social and mobile computing pose new opportunities for the study of the effects of law, rules, and social norms. These new opportunities invite the use of new methodological techniques in law and social science research. Yet few law and social science scholars are trained to understand these new computational processes. This is a pilot of a collaborative, multidisciplinary, cross-campus network brought together to plan and train the next generation of law and social science scholars in algorithmic processes, data analytics and the opportunities presented by ubiquitous social and mobile computing. It is for the development of a faculty board, new curriculum, and new training activities to be centered primarily at a Technology, Law and Society Summer Institute. The goal is to develop the updated training necessary to ensure that the next generation of socio-legal scholars are equipped to utilize new methodological techniques and new sites of inquiry. Just as the consideration of "law-in-action" shifted the paradigm for legal research by expanding it beyond the exegesis of law as written and into the domain of what judges, lawyers and citizens actually do with law and how they understand it in practice, the interface between law and computer-based and other computational systems offers the opportunity for a new paradigm shift in socio-legal studies. The proposed series of trainings, workshops and a summer institute will equip law and social science scholars to develop methods for the study of these new legal objects and relationships. During the academic year, participants will test methods and formats for cross-training and collaboration. The broader impacts include training new researchers and helping existing law and social science scholars to re-tool; collaborating with the technology and policy communities to bring law and social science research to bear on their activities; and fostering cross-disciplinary, cross-campus collaborations.