Law for Computer Scientists (2020)

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Post by jruohonen » Sun, Jan 28, 2024, 6:49 PM UTC

Law for Computer Scientists (2020)
lawforcomputerscientists.pubpub.org

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Post by nkmnz » Sun, Jan 28, 2024, 6:55 PM UTC

What about the opposite? Computer Science for lawyers?

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Post by jruohonen » Sun, Jan 28, 2024, 6:59 PM UTC

nkmnz wrote: post #2

What about the opposite? Computer Science for lawyers?

Plenty of that; much more than the other way around, in fact, I assert. In any case, a highly recommended monograph easily grasped also by computer scientists and their students. The only major limitation is that the book is eurocentric, but that is probably unavoidable already due to length limitations.

EDIT: Get the whole copy (not everything seems to be on the website) from here:

https://www.cohubicol.com/assets/uploads/law_for_computer_sc...

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Post by syndicatedjelly » Sun, Jan 28, 2024, 7:04 PM UTC

nkmnz wrote: post #2

What about the opposite? Computer Science for lawyers?

The typical lawyer knows more about computers and programming, than a typical programmer knows about the law.

I think this is the case for most fields with respect to programming.

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Post by bomb-judges » Sun, Jan 28, 2024, 7:15 PM UTC

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Post by torstenvl » Sun, Jan 28, 2024, 7:16 PM UTC

syndicatedjelly wrote: post #4

nkmnz wrote: post #2

What about the opposite? Computer Science for lawyers?

The typical lawyer knows more about computers and programming, than a typical programmer knows about the law. I think this is the case for most fields with respect to programming.

I am not so sure. Many of my day job colleagues struggle to use Excel, let alone code anything. By contrast there seem to be a lot of programmers who have a basic understanding of the law, at least as it applies to them.

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Post by fragmede » Sun, Jan 28, 2024, 7:28 PM UTC

syndicatedjelly wrote: post #4

nkmnz wrote: post #2

What about the opposite? Computer Science for lawyers?

The typical lawyer knows more about computers and programming, than a typical programmer knows about the law. I think this is the case for most fields with respect to programming.

What type of law and what type of programming? Everyone has to be aware of computers these days, but that doesn't make them know anything about programming. Meanwhile, in between traffic laws, financial laws (taxes, particularly), employment law, invention patent laws, maybe real estate/permitting laws, a programmer and any person in society needs to have some knowledge of the law to exist more than a lawyer needs to know about programming.

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Post by scrozart » Sun, Jan 28, 2024, 7:42 PM UTC

syndicatedjelly wrote: post #4

nkmnz wrote: post #2

What about the opposite? Computer Science for lawyers?

The typical lawyer knows more about computers and programming, than a typical programmer knows about the law. I think this is the case for most fields with respect to programming.

What, exactly, are you basing this assumption on?

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Post by genneth » Sun, Jan 28, 2024, 8:11 PM UTC

This is "law" from an European (EU) perspective. The foundations differ in English and US law. I've always thought it would be interesting to compare them in the same way computer scientists compare the design choices in different operating systems. At the top level the same outcomes are desirable, but the lower levels and choices of abstractions are different.