UVA Legal Data Lab

[UVA Legal Data Lab @UVALegalDataLab]

The Legal Data Lab is searching for a Legal Data Scientist. If you or someone you know has a passion for empirical legal scholarship, we'd love to hear from you! More about the position can be found at: https://t.co/WLjYRG4PIB

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Excited to be part of the On The Books Expansion project (https://t.co/GySPFK38Lx). We'll be working with the Law Library's Special Collections, UVA's StatLab, the Main Grounds Library, and the fine folks at UNC on this Mellon grant funded look at Jim Crow laws. Stay tuned!

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Very cool new feature for CourtListener. Congrats to the U.C.S.B. students who made it happen.

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Big news! Our major new opinion summarization feature is live! This launches over a million expert-written summaries of nearly 400,000 opinions. Never before has it been so easy to understand the law. We're really thrilled with this one: https://t.co/zIK5mDUMeG

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As a result of our ongoing FOIA suit, the DOJ has produced seven previously undisclosed corporate non-prosecution agreements. You can read them here: https://t.co/aZ0AfLoJPD

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What happened today is huge. PACER reform passed the house during last Congress. Now it's headed for a senate vote with a gazillion cosponsors. When this bill passes, it will open up what's probably the biggest paywall in the world.

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Librarian Jon Ashley of the @UVALegalDataLab
Is the plaintiff in Freedom of Information Act Litigation.

[UVA Law School @UVALaw]

#UVALaw’s First Amendment Clinic has sued the Department of Justice, again, for release of non-prosecution agreements. This time they’re asking for the full list. https://t.co/GRC7OR9GYs

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That got picked up fast.

https://t.co/QCwgqkKH4v

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@theFordon Not sure if he's worked with PACER data, but @alex_jakubow at Duke Law definitely has analytical chops and might have some advice as well.

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After 546 days of stalling on our FOIA request, we filed a complaint against the DOJ. We're trying to unearth a list of all the corporate non-prosecution agreements struck by the DOJ since 2009. Thank you UVA Law First Amendment Clinic, @rcfp, and @Public_Citizen!

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@theFordon @FreeLawProject We've made some attempts at extracting data from PACER dockets in the Corporate Prosecution Registry and are happy to share that experience. CourtListener and the Northwestern/SCALES OKN folks seem to be the ones who have really worked on this.

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So glad this is finally happening!

[UVA Law School @UVALaw]

#UVALaw’s new LawTech Center — which will focus on timely issues relating to law and technology — will be led by Prof. @daniellecitron. https://t.co/ItIGGgXBKN

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Finally, if you're not familiar with us, we're a non-profit that's dedicated to improving the legal ecosystem. We rely on donations to keep the lights on. Huge technical projects like this are extraordinarily expensive. Please support us if you can. https://t.co/0CFqT1PeqT

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Here's a better link to the main story: https://t.co/Ertmjw9JDS

Here's how the WSJ did it with our new database: https://t.co/FI3CEUztg1

Here's a data viz: https://t.co/cg6ZrRZ6mm

Here's a sidebar about the law: https://t.co/1LHELc8bwD

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Four years in the making, today we are announcing a new one-of-a-kind database containing the investment and conflict information for every federal judge. Spanning 17 years, this database was extracted from over 250,000 pages of judicial financial records. https://t.co/gxlfJY4VPx

[UVA Legal Data Lab @UVALegalDataLab]

Well this is cool. The Free Law Project has created a database of federal judicial financial disclosures: https://t.co/2lBNLukZNH. And the WSJ is using it in a series of articles, the first of which is here: https://t.co/MNsFIhFbt0. Nice work Bill and Mike!

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We've posted a nifty visualization of data from the Corporate Prosecution Registry here: https://t.co/MBw2dBGTzE. Special thanks to Sam Powers for their excellent D3 work!

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This feels familiar.

https://t.co/WVQCLfSEdu via @corpcrimereporter

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In a former life, we worked in Silicon Valley at Gunderson Dettmer. So it's super interesting to see competitor Wilson Sonsini automating the start-up process (see: https://t.co/bqByBlSLuy).

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We always enjoy using spaCy (https://t.co/ojJIWEjAxG) for NLP projects and are really digging https://t.co/LQIy2VUFh4 for marking up texts and building machine learning models. So much less time creating datasets and testing ideas out. Super cool.

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If you're looking to jump start your empirical legal research skills, ICPSR is offering a 2 week session titled, "Techniques for the Analysis of Legal and Judicial Data" (see: https://t.co/k4vbzG7AcI)