JTDL: Gamifying civil suits; 2021 Good Tech Awards + New jobs
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News
Access to technology in the American carceral state. (Tech Policy Press) (h/t Benj Azose)
FBI may shut down a police use-of-force database due to lack of police participation. (Washington Post)
Some of my favorites were awarded the 2021 Good Tech Award. (New York Times)
Data and analytics enable community groups to become partners in public safety. (Washington Post) (h/t Joel Caplan)
Crime prediction keeps society stuck in the past. (Wired)
Police are being trained to create fake social-media accounts using AI to generate images of people who don't exist. (Business Insider)
Sound and credibility in virtual court: Low audio quality leads to less favorable evaluations of witnesses and lower weighting of evidence. (Law and Human Behavior)
Why it’s so hard to regulate algorithms. (Markup)
Automation and criminal defense. (Texas Criminal Defense Podcast)
Tech startup wants to gamify suing people using crypto tokens. (Vice)
Events
The Legal Services Corp.’s Innovations in Technology conference is Jan. 12-13 and 19-20. (LSC)
Vanderbilt’s Summit on Law and Innovation is Jan. 28. (Vandy)
Jobs & Opportunities
[New] Access to Justice Tech Fellows’ science fiction writing contest for law students is accepting entries. (A2JTF)
[New] Amnesty International needs an advisor for the Algorithmic Accountability Lab. (AI)
Boundless has numerous openings. (B) (h/t Chase Hertel)
Bryter needs a legal solutions engineer. (B) (h/t Adam Ziegler)
California’s Committee on Revision of the Penal Code needs a staff attorney that’s good with data. (CRPC) (h/t Tom Nosewicz)
[New] Center for Democracy and Technology has multiple open positions. (CDT) (h/t Alex Givens)
The Civil Beat Law Center needs a staff attorney. (CBLC) (h/t Brian Black)
Color of Change needs devs and PMs. (CoC) (h/t Archana Ahlawat)
Data & Society needs a director of research (DS)
Duke Law School’s Bolch Judicial Institute needs a director. (BJI) (h/t Keith Porcaro)
Duke Law School’s Wilson Center for Science and Justice needs a policy director. (WCSJ)
The Day One Project has numerous openings. (D1P)
Georgetown Law needs a teaching fellow for its Communications & Technology Law Clinic. (GU)
Georgetown Law needs an ED for its Institute for Tech Law and Policy. (GU)
Harvard’s Library Innovation Lab needs a dev. (LIL)
[New] Honest Jobs needs a VP of marketing and alliances. (HJ) (h/t Brian Howe)
[New] JustCity Memphis needs a data scientist. (JCM)
[New] JustFix is hiring for multiple roles. (JF) (h/t Pinky Chan)
Just Tech has numerous openings. (JT) (h/t Legal Tech Jobs)
[New] Justice Innovation Lab needs data fellows. (JIL)
The Law Society of Ontario’s regulatory sandbox is taking applications. (LSO) (h/t Will Morrison)
Measures for Justice has multiple positions open. (M4J)
The National Public Defense conference on virtual courts is looking for proposals. (NPD)
NYU’s Technology Law and Policy Clinic needs a clinical teaching fellow. (NYU)
Northeastern University needs a information justice prof. (NEU)
[New] Paladin has multiple openings. (P) (h/t Felicity Conrad)
Pathfinders for Justice announced the Young Justice Leaders initiative. (PfJ)
[New] PEW seeks a freelancer for a lit review on research related to court time and costs, email your interest to the link. (PEW) (h/t Darcy White)
The Philly District Attorney's Office is looking to fill a number of roles, including for a dev. (PDAO)
The Philly city government needs a cloud engineer to support open data teams, including with the DA. (CoP) (h/t Dan Lopez)
ProBonoNet needs a product manager. (PBN)
SimpleCitizen, an immigration tech company, has engineering, product and sales roles. (SC) (h/t Eleni Manis)
Stanford CodeX is looking for fellows. (SC)
[New] Surveillance Technology Oversight Project has legal and policy openings (STOP) and an internship. (STOP). (h/t Eleni Manis)
Tech Congress is accepting applications for its Congressional Innovation Scholars Program. (TC)
Texas A&M needs a dev for a public defense data portal project. (TAM)
Theory and Principle, a legal software development boutique, needs a PM. (T&P)
University of Georgia’s State of the South access to justice conference is accepting proposals. (GSU)
The University of San Francisco needs a data ethics fellow. (USF)
Upsolve, the bankruptcy platform, is hiring for multiple roles. (UpS)
Vera needs an innovation senior associate. (Vera)
[New] We Robot has a call out for papers. (WR)
Yale’s Internet Society Project is accepting applications for its fellowship. (ISP)