Recently I landed a series of contributions to the Python package pip-tools:
In 2019 we embarked on the CAP Roadshow. This year, we shared the Caselaw Access Project at conferences and workshops with new friends and colleagues.
Read more of "The CAP Roadshow"The prospect of having the Caselaw Access Project dataset become public for the first time brings with it the obvious (and wholly necessary) ideas for data parsing: our dataset is vast and the metadata structured (read about the process to get to this), but the work of parsing the dataset is far from over. For instance, there’s a lot of work to be done in parsing individual parties in CAP (like names of judges), we don’t yet have a citator, and we still don’t know who wins a case and who loses. And for that matter, we don’t really know what “winning” and “losing” even means (if you are interested in working on any of these problems and more, start here: https://case.law/tools/).
Read more of "Colors in Caselaw"Today we’re launching CAP search, a new interface to search data made available as part of the Caselaw Access Project API. Since releasing the CAP API in Fall 2018, this is our first try at creating a more human-friendly way to start working with this data.
Read more of "Launching CAP Search"One of the things people often ask about Perma.cc is how we ensure the preservation of Perma links.
Read more of "Some Thoughts on Digital Preservation"Since launching the Caselaw Access Project API and bulk data service in October, we’ve been lucky to see a research community develop around this dataset. Today, we’re excited to share examples of how that community is using CAP data to create new kinds of legal scholarship.
Read more of "Developing the CAP Research Community"Last year, Jack Cushman expressed a desire for a personal service similar to the one I perform here at LIL – not exactly the DevOps of my job title, but more generally the provision and maintenance of network and computing infrastructure. Jack’s take on this idea is very much a personal one, I think: go to a person known to and trusted by you, not the proverbial faceless corporation, for whom you may be as much product as customer.
Read more of "The Network Librarian"Data sets have tales to tell. In the Caselaw Access Project API, full-text search is a way to find these stories in 300+ years of U.S caselaw, from individual cases to larger themes.
Read more of "Data Stories and CAP API Full-Text Search"This September we hosted a Legal Tech Gumbo session dedicated to using quantitative methods to find new threads in U.S. caselaw. The Legal Tech Gumbo is a collaboration between the Harvard Law & Technology Society and Harvard Library Innovation Lab (LIL).
Read more of "Legal Tech Student Group Session Brings Quantitative Methods to U.S. Caselaw"Recently we announced the launch of the Caselaw Access Project at case.law. But we want to highlight the story of the case.law domain itself.
Read more of "The Story of the case.law Domain"