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The Collateral Consequences Calculator is premiering this week at the New York State Bar Association's annual meeting, marking the culmination of a 2 year development effort. The motivation and curricular goals driving this project are described in our portfolio. In addition to the formidable educational and logistical challenges, this project also presented some very unique technical challenges, which are worth documenting and celebrating.

I've been largely an outside observer to our Country X project. CountryX is a simulation used for International Policy students studying what scenarios lead to genocide. In the early stages, the rules of the 'game.' converged on:

The light at the end of the tunnel seems to actually be visible now for the Collateral Consequences project. There's still a formidable amount of manual data entry to be done, but we've got a part-timer on that, so it's not my primary concern. The difficult work is now out of the way. If you've been following the development at all, you know that we've basically got a system worked out and running. There were plenty of tricky problems to solve to get there and I've written about some of them here.