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Explanatory Parentheticals (Consistently Ubiquitous, Easily Harvested, and Grossly Underutilized)

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Lawyers and judges alike rely on explanatory parentheticals to concisely convey the substance of a decision.  Indeed, the common law is infested with these case-summarizing parentheticals. 
Because these parentheticals follow a common format, including the use of an introductory gerund - (holding, (distinguishing, (rejecting, etc. - they are amenable to automated extraction.  During an ongoing fellowship project at Stanford CodeX, the speaker extracted hundreds of thousands of explanatory parentheticals from federal case law.   

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19 June 14:30 - 15:30
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190
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