Day archives: November 9th, 2016

Harvard Law School Library’s Nuremberg Trials Project

Harvard Gazette – For HLS team digitizing Nuremberg documents, ‘a haunting effect’: “In 1949, four years after the Nuremberg war crime trials began, the library received the most complete set of documents from the Nazi prosecutions outside that of the National Archives. Over the years, individuals who participated in the 13 trials have also donated their …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Education, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Public/private partnership create 3D maps combining geospatial, climatology, environmental data

Ecological Marine Units – GIS Provides Better Understanding of Ocean Ecosystems: “A healthy ocean can reduce poverty, combat hunger, limit the impacts of climate change, and improve the global economy. To achieve these ideals and support ocean sustainability, it is necessary to have a baseline method for understanding of the ocean’s ecosystems and a framework to detect …

Subjects: Climate Change, Environmental Law, Government Documents

Paper – Environmental Law, Big Data, and the Torrent of Singularities

Boyd, William, Environmental Law, Big Data, and the Torrent of Singularities (Novemeber 7, 2016). 64 UCLA L. Rev. Disc. 544 (2016); University of Colorado at Boulder, Economics Department Paper No. 16-9. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2866570 “How will big data impact environmental law in the near future? This Essay imagines one possible future for environmental law in …

Subjects: Environmental Law, Knowledge Management