Tag Archives: Public Law

Bloomberg Government – Another Tool for Navigating the Increasingly Complex Information Environment?

While I am hardly here to shill for Bloomberg, the introduction of Bloomberg Government into the market for government information does represent an important development worthy of highlighting.  Coverage from a few weeks back is located here and here. While … Continue reading

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Measuring the Complexity of the Law : The United States Code

Understanding the sources of complexity in legal systems is a matter long considered by legal commentators. In tackling the question, scholars have applied various approaches including descriptive, theoretical and, in some cases, empirical analysis. The list is long but would certainly … Continue reading

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The United States Code — The Movie — Featuring Title 16 — Conservation

Above is a movie displaying Title 16 (Conservation) a subset of the content contained within the United States Code. At more than 2,400 pages (download it here), Title 16 is one of the larger titles in the US Code.  Yet, … Continue reading

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Hustle and Flow: A Social Network Analysis of the American Federal Judiciary [Repost from 3/25]

Together with Derek Stafford from the University of Michigan Department of Political Science, Hustle and Flow: A Social Network Analysis of the American Federal Judiciary represents our initial foray into Computational Legal Studies. The full paper contains a number of interesting visualizations … Continue reading

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Locating Supreme Court Opinions in Doctrine Space

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Visualization of the Ideological History of the Supreme Court

Here is a cool visual for the Martin-Quinn Scores. For those of you not familiar, the Martin-Quinn paper and “MQ Scores” represented a significant breakthrough in the field of judicial politics. On that note, Stephen Jessee & Alexander Tahk have done a nice job … Continue reading

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An Exchange in Need of Empirics and an Analytical or Computational Model

On a recent flight, I read Jeffrey Toobin’s New Yorker Article on Chief Justice Roberts entitled “No More Mr. Nice Guy”.  The exchange quoted above is drawn from this article. While I believe it is appropriate to engage empirical data where … Continue reading

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Taking Judicial Content Seriously–Lupu & Fowler’s Strategic Content Model

In my conversations with judicial politics scholars, many lament how many of our existing approaches tend to ignore opinion content.  For those interested in embedding opinion content into existing theories of judicial decision making … consider Yonatan Lupu & James Fowler’s paper … Continue reading

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Hustle & Flow: A Network Analysis of the American Federal Judiciary

This paper written by CLS Blog Co-Founder Daniel Katz and Derek Stafford from the University of Michigan Department of Political Science representes an initial foray into Computational Legal Studies by the graduate students here at the University of Michigan Center … Continue reading

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