Legal Databases by Subject

Yale Law School Library guide to commonly used data sets and resources.

Twitter datasets for research and archiving. "Developed in 2013 by a group of software developers, archivists and librarians, the Social Feed Manager collects data from Twitter, Tumblr, Flickr and Sina Weibo – a Chinese blogging website – and exports and organizes the data for researcher use. "

"...a collectively curated listing of Twitter datasets. Public datasets are shared as Tweet IDs, which can be hydrated back into full datasets using [the] Hydrator desktop application."

"...online archive of gun violence incidents collected from over 6,500 law enforcement, media, government and commercial sources daily in an effort to provide near-real time data about the results of gun violence...."

Archive of transcripts and video files (2004-present) of public statements of Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook. Downloadable for research projects. Hosted at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee’s Digital Commons.

..."Free public data published by New York City agencies and other partners..." Provided by The NYC Mayor’s Office of Data Analytics (MODA) and the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT).

"The Caselaw Access Project (“CAP”) expands public access to U.S. law. [Their] goal is to make all published U.S. court decisions freely available to the public online, in a consistent format, digitized from the collection of the Harvard Law School Library."