SICSS-Law

June 14 to June 25, 2021 | Maastricht University | Virtual event

Schedule & Materials

All times are in Central European Summer Time
Sunday June 13, 2021

  • 17:00 Meet-and-greet (based on this model) (Zoom)

Monday June 14, 2021 - Introduction and Applied Ethics

  • 12.30 - 13.00 Introduction and logistics (Zoom)

  • 13.00 - 14.00 Small group lunches (Zoom)

  • 14.00 - 14.30 Break

  • 14.30 - 15.30 Guest speaker: Teun J Dekker (Zoom)

  • 15.30 - 15.45 Break

  • 15.45 - 16.00 Introduction to the group exercise: Lesson plan (Zoom)

  • 16.00 - 17.45 Group exercise: Case study (Zoom)

  • 17.45 - 18.00 Break

  • 18.00 - 19.15 Keynote speaker: Michael A. Livermore (Zoom)

Tuesday June 15, 2021 - Digital Trace Data

  • 12.00 - 13.00 Guest speaker: Michael Veale (Zoom)

  • 13.00 - 13.15 Break

  • 13.15 - 14.15 Small group lunches (Zoom)

  • 14.15 - 14.45 Break

  • 14.45 - 15.00 Introduction to the group exercise (Zoom)

  • 15.00 - 18.00 Group exercise: Lesson plan (Zoom)

  • 18.00 - 19.00 Whole group debrief about group exercise (Zoom)

Wednesday June 16, 2021 - Automated text analysis [schedule change]

  • 12.00 - 13.00 Small group lunches (Zoom)

  • 13.00 - 13.15 Break (Zoom)

  • 13.15 - 13.30 Introduction to the group exercise (Zoom)

  • 13.30 - 16.30 Group exercise: Lesson Plan (Zoom)

  • 16.30 - 17.30 Whole group debrief about group exercise (Zoom)

  • 17.30 - 18.00 Break

  • 18.00 - 19.00 Guest speaker: Daniel Preotiuc (Zoom)

Thursday June 17, 2021 - Surveys in the Digital Age

  • 12.00 - 13.00 Guest speaker: Angela Dorrough (Zoom)

  • 13.00 - 13.15 Break

  • 13.15 - 14.15 Small group lunches (Zoom)

  • 14.15 - 14.45 Break

  • 14.45 - 15.00 Introduction to the group exercise (Zoom)

  • 15.00 - 18.00 Group exercise: Lesson Plan (Zoom)

  • 18.00 - 19.00 Whole group debrief about group exercise (Zoom)

Friday June 18, 2021 - Legal Predictions [Schedule Change]

  • 12.00 - 13.00 Guest speaker: Gijs van Dijck (Zoom)

  • 13.00 - 13.15 Break

  • 13.15 - 14.15 Group formation (Zoom)

  • 14.15 - 14.45 Break

  • 14.45 - 15.45 Survey Group Exercise Cont. (Zoom)

  • 15.45 - 16.45 Whole group debrief about group exercise (Zoom)

Saturday June 19, 2021 - Day off
Sunday June 20, 2021 - Day off
Monday June 21, 2021 - Work on group projects

  • 13.00 - 14.00 Small group lunches (Zoom)

  • 17.00 - 18.00 Office hours (Zoom)

Tuesday June 22, 2021 - Work on group projects

  • 13.00 - 14.00 Small group lunches (Zoom)

  • 17.00 - 18.00 Office hours (Zoom)

Wednesday June 23, 2021 - Work on group projects

  • 13.00 - 14.00 Small group lunches (Zoom)

  • 16.30 - 17.30 Office Hours (Zoom)

  • 18.00 - 19.30 Panel discussion on the (many) paths to computational social science research in law with Masha Medvedeva, Jens Frankenreiter, Thales Bertaglia (Zoom)

Thursday June 24, 2021 - Work on group projects

  • 13.00 - 14.00 Small group lunches (Zoom)

  • 17.00 - 18.00 Office hours (Zoom)

Friday June 25, 2021 - Group Projects Presentations

  • 13.00 - 13.45 Group Project Presentation: Beyond courts - In search for a climate litigation effect, Anna Sekula, Katharina Luckner, Anna Kovács (Zoom)

  • 13.45 - 14.00 Break

  • 14.00 - 14.45 Group Project Presentation: Eat the Poor? Economic Status of Involved States and the Outcomes of Investment Disputes, Abdurrahman Erol, Wojciech Giemza, Sandra Hahn (Zoom)

  • 14.45 - 15.00 Break

  • 15.00 - 15.45 Group Project Presentation: Unpacking Transparency in EU Law: A Computation Exploratory Analysis (1952-2019), A. Davola, G. De Gregorio, N. Kolt, L. Martínez Lorenzo, J. Strycharz, Ł. Szoszkiewicz, A. Zarra (Zoom)

  • 15.00 - 16.00 Break

  • 16.00 - 16.45 Group Project Presentation: Analyzing Judicial Outcomes of Corporate Disputes in China: Statistical and Computational Methods, Siyun Jiang (Zoom)

  • 16.45 - 17.15 Closing remarks (Zoom)

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