Research Papers

A number of research projects have been completed in collaboration Free Law Project or with data that we have made available:

• Malte Ostendorff, Elliott Ash, Terry Ruas, Bela Gipp, Julian Moreno-Schneider, Georg Rehm, Evaluating Document Representations for Content-based Legal Literature Recommendations, ICAIL, (forthcoming, 2021).

• Elizabeth Chika Tippett, Charlotte Alexander, and L. Karl Branting, Does Lawyering Matter? Predicting Judicial Decisions from Legal Briefs, and What That Means for Access to Justice, Texas Law Review, (forthcoming, as of March 24, 2021).

• Michael A. Livermore, Faraz Dadgosari, Mauricio Guim, Peter A. Beling, and Daniel N. Rockmore, Law Search as Prediction, Artificial Intelligence and Law 23:3-34 (2021).

• Jonathan H. Choi, An Empirical Study of Statutory Interpretation in Tax Law, 95 New York University Law Review 363 (2020).

• Frank Fagan, [Waiving Good Faith: A Natural Language Processing Approach], 16 New York University Journal of Law and Business 633 (2020).

• Ryan Whalen, Judicial Gobbledygook: The Readability of Supreme Court Writing, 125 Yale Law Journal Forum, (November 19, 2015).

• Colin Starger, Supreme Court Mapping Project, Web Visualization, University of Baltimore, School of Law, (2014–2015).

• Brad Lyon, Exploring the United States Judicial System, Web Visualization, (2014).

• Sarah Tyler, Repetition and Diversification in Multi-Session Task Oriented Search, University of California, Dissertation, Santa Cruz, Computer Science, (December, 2013).

• Christina Boyd, David Hoffman, Zoran Obradovic and Kosta Ristovski, Building a Taxonomy of Litigation: Clusters of Causes of Action in Federal Complains, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (June, 2013).

• Rowyn McDonald and Karen Rustad,The Berkeley National Reporter: Building a Free, Open Source Legal Citator, Masters Thesis, University of California, Berkeley, School of Information, (May, 2012).

• Michael Lissner, CourtListener.com: A platform for researching and staying abreast of the latest in the law, Masters Thesis, University of California, Berkeley, School of Information, (May 7, 2010).

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