Legal Studies 393E - S-Empirical Legal Studies

From academic research on the impact of landmark court cases to the judge reading a brief loaded with social policy arguments, the study of law frequently involves empirical data. In this course, students will both learn how to digest empirical legal research and be equipped with the skills to conduct their own empirical research. Using readings and accompanying data from a variety of areas of legal studies research, the course covers topics including constructing empirical legal research questions, collecting and generating data appropriate for testing those questions, visualizing data, and conducting descriptive and inferential analyses. Students will leave the course with a firm understanding of the centrality of data in twenty-first century law.

Open to Legal Studies majors only. LEGAL 101