Law as Data

Michael A. Livermore & Daniel N. Rockmore, Law as Data: Computation, Text, and the Future of Legal Analysis (Santa Fe Institute Press, 2019). 

In recent years, the digitization of legal texts, combined with developments in the fields of statistics, computer science, and data analytics, have opened entirely new approaches to the study of law. This volume explores the new field of computational legal analysis, an approach marked by its use of legal texts as data. The emphasis herein is work that pushes methodological boundaries, either by using new tools to study longstanding questions within legal studies or by identifying new questions in response to developments in data availability and analysis. 

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