Legal Databases by Subject: Empirical Legal Research
Empirical Legal Research Databases
This is a selective list. Other databases and websites will include additional resources relevant to the topic.
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- Datasets for Empirical Legal Research (Yale Law School)Yale Law School Library guide to commonly used data sets and resources.
- Tweetsets datasets (GW Libraries)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. "
- DocNow Catalog"...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."
- Law and Corpus Linguistics Technology Platform This link opens in a new windowSearchable database of large collections of historical texts to assist legal researchers and others to determine the meanings of words and phrases in their historical contexts. More InfoPUBLIC
- Gun Violence Archive"...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...."
- Zuckerberg filesArchive 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.
- NYC Open Data..."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).
- Caselaw Access Project (Harvard)"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."
- Social Explorer This link opens in a new windowDemographic information about the United States including historical data back to 1790. More InfoData UB ONLY
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