Project Grant 2043745

This three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will provide $248,675 to Georgetown University to develop methods for integrating legal and technical approaches to privacy in sociotechnical software systems. The researchers will establish technical interpretations of legal privacy concepts that can be incorporated into system design, analysis, and verification. They will also develop paradigms for translating technical...

This $512,386 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.070 Computer and Information Science and Engineering) supports the development of tools to secure the publication, authentication, and distribution of laws and other legal information, in order to protect the reliability and trustworthiness of digital legal systems that are critical to democracy. Key products and services to be delivered include: Long-term solutions for securely distributing, archiving, and accessing...

This $299,994 project grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under their Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), aims to integrate the principles and practices of emerging technology laws into computer science (CS) curriculum. The University of Iowa will lead this 2-year effort to develop a layered educational plan that (1) starts with prerequisite-free foundation lectures and seminars, (2) infuses law into core CS coursework, and (3)...

This project grant from the Department of State Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, under the Middle East Partnership Initiative parent federal grant program, awarded $1,000,000 to Creative Associates International Inc. to conduct the Libyan Engagement and Governance through Applied Learning - Cooperative Development Assistance (LEGAL-CDA) program in Libya from June 3, 2016 to January 31, 2017. The LEGAL-CDA program aimed to build governance capacity and civic engagement in Libya through applied...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $100,000 project grant to Fordham University under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The three-year award will support research investigating new methods and tools to design software accounting for legal and regulatory requirements. Specifically, the university researchers will develop integrated methods aligning legal and engineering considerations from project inception. They will prototype collaboration tools...

This $313,805 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program will fund the University of Wisconsin-Madison to compare news coverage of public events across different news sources from 1994 to 2010. The university will develop catalogs of public events from that period and corresponding news stories to demonstrate how perceptions based on mainstream national media differed from those in more local specialty newspapers. Relational databases...

This $972,083 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Justice (CFDA 16.560) supports a comprehensive research plan to examine the impact of police executives on accountability mechanisms and outcomes within law enforcement. The University of Utah is the prime recipient and is partnering with Purdue University and the University of South Carolina as sub-recipients. The key products and services to be delivered include: Building a comprehensive dataset on U.S. police executives from...

This $100,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program will fund research to understand the impact of privacy interventions on the online publishing ecosystem. The three-year award to the New Jersey Institute of Technology will support studies of how publishers comply with and implement privacy regulations, how users respond to new privacy tools, and the effects on user engagement, publisher revenues from online advertising, and...

This $166,500 Project Grant was awarded by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) under the National Institute of Justice Research, Evaluation, and Development Project Grants program (CFDA 16.560). The purpose of the grant is to conduct research examining the intersection of legal and technical concepts of fairness in artificial intelligence (AI) used for criminal risk assessment, with a focus on recidivism prediction models. The key research questions include: 1) At which technical stage of...

This three-year, $597,369 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), will support the development of computational tools to automatically understand and reason with tax law documents at The Johns Hopkins University. The project aims to advance natural language processing and automated reasoning capabilities for the legal domain, with a focus on mapping...