Spring 2014
5397 Computational Law - CHANDLER-

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Credits: 3

Course Areas: Business and Commercial Law 
Intellectual Property and Information Law

Time: 6:00p-7:30p  MWLocation:  

Course Outline: This course examines ways in which computation can be used to aid the study of legal issues. Topics studied include statistics, finance, actuarial finance, decision theory, game theory, computational linguistics, network theory, data mining, optimization, and complexity theory. Students will be responsible for creating a project illustrating the use of one or more of these techniques in analyzing a problem relevant to law. Use of the Mathematica programming language and creation of "Demonstrations" or CDF format documents will be strongly encouraged. Prerequisite: Analytic Methods for Lawyers or instructor's permission.

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Prerequisites: Yes  Completion of Analytical Methods for Lawyers on instructor's permission.

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Satisfies Skills Course Requirement: No
Satisfies Senior Writing Requirement: No