Last month we hosted the Caselaw Access Project Research Summit. An international group of researchers joined us to share what they are creating with Caselaw Access Project data. We are excited to share recordings of those presentations with you!
Read more of "Caselaw Access Project Research Summit: Recordings Now Available"Browse the Bookshelf of U.S. Case Law: Announcing the CAP Case Browser
Today we’re announcing the CAP case browser! Browse published U.S. case law from 1658 to 2018—all 40 million pages of it.
Read more of "Browse the Bookshelf of U.S. Case Law: Announcing the CAP Case Browser"Teaching Data Science for Lawyers with Caselaw Access Project Data
In the Spring of 2019, at the University of Iowa, I taught an experimental course called Introduction to Quantitative & Computational Legal Reasoning. The idea of the class was beginning “data science” in the legal context. The course is taught in Python, and focuses on introductory coding and statistics, with focused applications in the law (such as statistical evidence of discrimination).
Read more of "Teaching Data Science for Lawyers with Caselaw Access Project Data"The Caselaw Access Project Research Summit
Since launching the CAP API and Bulk Data Service in Fall 2018, we’ve been developing a research community around the Caselaw Access Project dataset.
Last week we hosted the first Caselaw Access Project Research Summit to bring together researchers from this community who had already made progress exploring data made available by the Caselaw Access Project.
Read more of "The Caselaw Access Project Research Summit"Historical Trends at the Caselaw Access Project
Today we’re excited to share Historical Trends, a new way to explore U.S. case law made available by the Caselaw Access Project at Harvard Law School.
Read more of "Historical Trends at the Caselaw Access Project"Improving pip-compile –generate-hashes
Recently I landed a series of contributions to the Python package pip-tools:
- Support URLs as packages #807
- Fix –generate-hashes with bare VCS URLs #812
- Fix pip-compile output for unsafe requirements #813
- Warn when –generate-hashes output is uninstallable #814
The CAP Roadshow
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"Colors in Caselaw
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"Launching CAP Search
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"Some Thoughts on Digital Preservation
One of the things people often ask about Perma.cc is how we ensure the preservation of Perma links.
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