Legal Modernism news

Poster for ASLH

Fri, 25 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

We presented a poster at the 2024 annual meeting of the American Society for Legal History.

Presentation at Fordham Law School

Mon, 31 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

We presented a working paper at the Conference on Data Science and Law at Fordham Law School.

Presentation for OWCAL

Thu, 16 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

We presented our work-in-progress at the Online Workshop for the Computational Analysis of Law, hosted by the University of Virginia Law School.

Website launch

Fri, 26 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

We have launched a website to gather our work on legal modernism and host our forthcoming visualizations.

Presentation at Duke University and the University of New South Wales

Thu, 25 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Kellen Funk presented a prospectus on “Making Law Modern” at the New Approaches to Digital Legal History workshop at Duke University and the University of New South Wales.

Max Planck presentation

Mon, 01 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Kellen Funk delivered a plenary keynote “In Search of Modern Law” at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory conference on Digital Methods and Resources in Legal History. A video of his keynote is available.

AHA presentation

Sat, 05 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Kellen Funk and Lincoln Mullen presented a prospectus on “Making Law Modern” at the 2020 annual meeting of the American Historical Association in Chicago.

Presentation at Northwestern University

Thu, 05 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Kellen Funk presented a prospectus on “Making Law Modern” at the Northwestern University School of Law conference on Law and Textual Analysis.

Spine of American Law

Tue, 06 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000

We published an article “The Spine of American Law: Digital Text Analysis and U.S. Legal Practice” in the American Historical Review.

AHR Podcast

Sun, 21 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000

We appeared on the American Historical Review podcast with editor Konstantin Dierks to talk about our upcoming article on the Field Code.

Civil Procedure Workshop in Tucson

Fri, 06 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Kellen Funk presented “The Lawyers’ Code: Tracking the Migration and Influence of the Field Code” at the annual Civil Procedure Workshop in Tucson.

Legal History Workshop

Wed, 26 Oct 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Kellen Funk and Lincoln Mullen presented “The Lawyers’ Code: Tracking the Migration and Influence of the Field Code” and ran a hands-on methods workshop at the Digital Legal History pre-conference for the American Society of Legal History annual meeting in Toronto.

A Servile Copy

Thu, 01 Sep 2016 00:00:00 +0000

We published a brief open-access article “A Servile Copy: Text Reuse and Medium Data in American Civil Procedure” in Rechtsgeschichte.

Talk at DHSI

Thu, 16 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Lincoln Mullen presented “Detecting Text Reuse in Nineteenth-Century Legal Codes of Civil Procedure” at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute Colloquium at the University of Victoria.

Migration of the Field Code

Wed, 17 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000

We made a working paper on “The Migration of the Field Code” available.