Digital Legal Research Lab

The Digital Legal Research Lab is an interdisciplinary hub for the social scientific study of law in the United States. Our team explores legal mobilization among marginalized actors and uses digital tools to offer quantitative and qualitative analysis of the law. 

Building an interactive and relational database of historic cases, our lab is committed to training students in critical legal inquiry, archival research methods, data collection and processing, and in transcription and encoding techniques that allow us to demonstrate patterns and strategies in legal mobilization and legal decision making. Vital to legal scholars and practitioners interested in concepts of justice, liberty, and due process, the database features thousands of previously unpublished cases that are central to the American legal tradition.