Your Final Project
4+ Hours
Enrolled students should spend the majority of this level working on their final projects. See The Final Project Rubric. This level includes no programming challenges and only light reading.
This Level's Guest Speaker:
Ed Walters, Chief Strategy Officer (vLex) & founder (Fastcase)
Ed Walters is the Chief Strategy Officer of vLex and the founder of Fastcase, a legal publishing company based in Washington, D.C. vLex and Fastcase merged in April 2023 to form the world’s largest online law library, with more than 3 million subscribers around the world and the law of more than 110 countries in a single legal intelligence platform. Ed earned an A.B. in government from Georgetown University and a J.D. from the University of Chicago. He is an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center and at Cornell Tech, where he teaches The Law of Robots, a class about the frontiers of law and technology. He is the author and editor of Data-Driven Law (Taylor & Francis 2018) and a contributing author to Legal Informatics (Cambridge University Press 2021).
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Self-Reflection and Logging Your Work
~20 min
As we do at the end of every level, we ask that you take a few minutes to reflect on how things are going. That being said, you've almost completed Level 13. Tell me how it's going by completing the form linked below.
Synchronous Meet Up, AKA our Class Time
November 27, 2023 @ 4pm Eastern
If you're an enrolled student, we're meeting via Zoom at this link. If you're not an enrolled student, I'm afraid you can't join us.
This synchronous time will be split between our guest speaker and final project rounds. That is, we'll go around the class and check in with everyone about their progress on final projects. We'll also work to help folks strategize about next steps and overcoming any blockers.
And on a personal note...
It has been an honor being your guide. Thank you, and congratulations on a job well done. I know many of you still have to put the finishing touches on your final projects, and I look forward to seeing them all, but you have completed the "classroom" component.
As for what follows...
† Time estimates are just that—estimates. The assumptions used to calculate reading time are as follows: 48 pages is assumed to take roughly an hour to read. When working with non paginated texts, it is assumed that a page is roughly equal to 250 words. Videos assume both 2X and 1X viewing. Estimates for coding are based on past experience. Each level should include about 6 hours and 40 min of work.