Category: Vacancies

Bridging the gap between data science and law

The emergence of data science has raised a wide range of concerns regarding its compatibility with the law, creating the need for experts who combine a deep knowledge of both data science and legal matters. The EU-funded LeADS project will train early-stage researchers to become legality attentive data scientists (LeADS), the new interdisciplinary profession aiming to address the aforementioned need. These scientists will be experts in both data science and law, able to maintain innovative solutions within the realm of law and help expand the legal frontiers according to innovation needs. The project will create the theoretical framework and the practical implementation template of a common language for co-processing and joint-controlling basic notions for both data scientists and jurists. LeADS will also produce a comparative and interdisciplinary lexicon.

Overall LEADs envisage to open 15 positions for ESRs and hopes to enable all ESR to enrol in a PhD program.

In the file attached are listed the position envisaged at each Beneficiary with corresponding contacts for further information and Expression of interest

ERS’ POSITIONS

EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST EXPIRED

The LiderLab of the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna and EMbeDS are seeking applications from candidates who can make outstanding contributions to the design, development and benchmarking of a Predictive Justice platform.

As part of the activities of the LiderLab and EMbeDS, the Predictive Justice project aims to create the first fully automated environment for the analysis of the judicial system — using the state-of-art of NLP models trained on legal documents. The platform will be used to analyze specific case studies, to create predictive algorithms for reconstructing the underlying legal reasoning, explain the reasoning behind each decision for different stakeholders, identify possible trends/biases, simplify legal tasks and propose reforms of the judicial system based on best practices.

You will work in a highly motived interdisciplinary team (academics, judges, lawyers, startup entrepreneurs), contributing to the development of automated tools for text classification, named entity recognition, anonymization and explainable machine learning in the legal sector.

Successful candidates will have experience in statistics, natural language processing, text mining and machine learning lifecycle management.

The 1-year research contract could be renewed, unfolding in a longer collaboration, and/or lead to a PhD project. Interested individuals should send inquiries to g.comande@santannapisa.it and segrliderlab@santannapisa.it, including a cover letter motivating their interest and a CV(3-page maximum).

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Disclaimer: this is not yet a job vacancy advertisement. Based on the expressions of interest, the Sant’Anna School for Advanced Studies will determine whether or not to offer the positions and their number.