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Computational legal studies : the promise and challenge of data-driven research / edited by Ryan Whalen.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Elgar studies in legal research methods.
- Elgar studies in legal research methods
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Quantitative research.
- Law--Data processing.
- Law.
- Legal research--Methodology.
- Legal research.
- Law--Research--Methodology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Cheltenham, United Kingdom ; Northampton, Massachusetts : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, [2020]
- Summary:
- "Featuring contributions from a diverse set of experts, this thought-provoking book offers a visionary introduction to the computational turn in law and the resulting emergence of the computational legal studies field. It explores how computational data creation, collection, and analysis techniques are transforming the way in which we comprehend and study the law, and the implications that this has for the future of legal studies."
- Contents:
- The emergence of computational legal studies : an introduction / Ryan Whalen
- Sense and similarity : automating legal text comparison / Wolfgang Alschner
- Computational legal studies, digital humanities, and textual analysis / Nina Varsava
- Computational stylometry : predicting the authorship of investment treaty awards / Malcolm Langford, Daniel Behn and Runar Lie
- Automated classification of modes of moral reasoning in judicial decisions / Nischal Mainali, Liam Meier, Elliott Ash and Daniel Chen
- On dragons, caves, teeth, and claws : legal analytics and the problem of court data access / Charlotte S. Alexander and Mohammad Javad Feizollahi
- Computational legal studies in China : progress, challenges, and future / Yingmao Tang and John Zhuang Liu
- Measuring surveillance chill and other regulatory impacts at scale / Jonathon W. Penney
- Understanding content moderation systems : new methods to understand internet governance at scale, over time, and across platforms / Nicolas Suzor
- Accounting for legal values / Kevin D. Ashley
- Is legal cognition computational? (when will DeepVehicle replace Judge Hercules?) / Paul Gowder
- Rule by rules / Michael A. Livermore
- Purposes and challenges of legal citation network analysis on case law / Dafne van Kuppevelt, Gijs van Dijck and Marcel Schaper
- Needles in a haystack : using network analysis to identify cases that are cited for general principles of law by the European Court of Human Rights / Henrik Palmer Olsen and Magnus Esmark
- Agent-based modeling for legal studies / Alex Schwartz
- Analyzing high volumes of German court decisions in an interdisciplinary class of law and computer science students / Janis Beckedorf, Dirk Hartung and Phillip Sittig.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-78897-745-9
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