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Title Computational legal studies : the promise and challenge of data-driven research / edited by Ryan Whalen
Published Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, Massachusetts, USA : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Elgar studies in legal research methods
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
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."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 28, 2020)
Subject Legal research -- Methodology
Quantitative research.
Law -- Data processing
Law -- Study and teaching.
Law -- Methodology.
Legal research.
Law -- Data processing
Law -- Methodology
Law -- Study and teaching
Legal research -- Methodology
Quantitative research
Form Electronic book
Author Whalen, Ryan, editor
LC no. 2020942939
ISBN 1788977459
9781788977456
1788977440
9781788977449