Long-time readers may have noticed that a few things have changed around here in recent days. And that brings us to our two exciting announcements.
First, I’ve moved my practice to the San Francisco office of Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP.
I’ve known and respected Arnold & Porter for its brilliant lawyers and its
Yesterday, we announced the completion of a substantial expansion to the Illinois Supreme Court’s database. Today, we review the full list of data points included in the database.
Join us back here tomorrow as we resume our analysis of the Court’s death penalty jurisprudence.
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Today, we announce a substantial expansion of the Illinois Supreme Court database. Matching the expansion earlier this year of the California Supreme Court database, the data on the Illinois Supreme Court has been expanded to include significantly more variables, as well as all the Court’s cases since January 1, 1990. During that time, the Court
Last week, I was looking at our archives, pulling up old research, and I stumbled onto this two-year old post – my 500th on Appellate Strategist. Now that our other two blogs, Illinois Supreme Court Review and California Supreme Court Review, have been publishing for a while, I decided to check the dashboards there
Early last year, we founded the Illinois Supreme Court Review to bring rigorous, law-review style empirical research founded on data analytic techniques to the study of appellate decision making. Today, we expand our focus with the California Supreme Court Review, a new blog devoted to sharing insights culled from tens of thousands of pages
Today, we announce a major expansion of the data library that powers The Illinois Supreme Court Review. For the past year, our analysis of the Illinois Supreme Court’s work has been based upon a data library consisting of the 620 civil cases decided by the Court since January 1, 2000.
For the past several months,
Academics in various disciplines have been developing sophisticated tools for analyzing the dynamics of group decision making for many years. The leading figures in this research have been mostly law and politics professors, along with a number of economists, and their methods have included data analytics, game theory, organization theory and behavioral economics, to name