Here’s a fun example of how you might use my data on Congressional bill length and complexity. Imagine you want to understand the empirical distribution of Flesch-Kincaid reading level for Congressional bills and how this distribution is related to…
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Updated Michigan Compiled Laws (MCL) XML
Last August, I released an XML copy of the Michigan Compiled Laws (MCL). As an example of what could be done with the structured data, I also created a single-page HTML version generated from the XML. Since then, there’s…
XML Copy of the Michigan Compiled Law (MCL)
A few weeks ago, Ari Hershowitz posted on Quroa calling for a Californa code hackathon. Since Ari was drumming up support for software developers to build state-level tools, I thought I’d see what data the Michigan government had to offer. However,…
Tagged with: computational legal studies, data, law, legal informatics, politics, programming
Posted in Law, Programming
Posted in Law, Programming
Electronic World Treaty Index and Tax Court Appendix
I’ve been busy lately with my new day job and wedding planning , but Dan and I still managed to meet two big goals in the past week. First, we’ve finalized a stable version of the Electronic World Treaty…
Tagged with: computational legal studies, data, law, legal informatics, networks, politics, united states code
Posted in Law, Research
Posted in Law, Research
Two new papers on SSRN: Measuring EU integration through sovereign debt & Exploring relationships between headnotes in the Supreme Court
What do you do with that unfinished paper? You know, the one that’s 50% there but you don’t have the time to finish. Or maybe it’s the one that’s 80% there, but you don’t want to deal with the inevitable two…
Tagged with: computational legal studies, finance, law, legal informatics, politics, sovereign debt
Posted in Finance, Law, Research
Posted in Finance, Law, Research
