It would be nice if all of the data which sociologists require could be enumerated because then we could run them through IBM machines and draw charts as the economists do.
However, not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted
– William Cameron, Informal Sociology (1963)
About the project
COHUBICOL (Counting as a Human Being in the Era of Computational Law) will investigate how the prominence of counting and computation transforms many of the assumptions, operations and outcomes of the law.
COHUBICOL is hiring!
We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher in the domain of natural legal language processing (NLLP). The researcher will be part of the Computer Science team and will be appointed at Radboud University in the Netherlands.
Application deadline: 31 May 2022