Law as Data: Computation, Text, and the Future of Legal Analysis

Livermore, Michael A.; Rockmore, Daniel N.

ISBN 10: 1947864084 / ISBN 13: 9781947864085

Published by SFI Press (edition ), 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Law as Data: Computation, Text, and the Future of Legal Analysis
• Publisher: SFI Press (edition )
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1947864084
• ISBN 13: 9781947864085
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

In recent years, the digitization of legal texts and 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.By using the text and underlying data of legal documents as the direct objects of quantitative statistical analysis, Law as Data introduces the legal world to the broad range of computational tools already proving themselves relevant to law scholarship and practice, and highlights the early steps in what promises to be an exciting new approach to studying the law.