A pioneering new collection, Decoding the Court: Legal Data Insights from the Supreme Court of Canadaintegrates advanced legal data analytics with meticulous doctrinal analysis, offering a comprehensive examination of Canada's top court and reshaping traditional legal research paradigms.
Offering a transformative approach to studying the Supreme Court of Canada, the collection bridges the gap between qualitative and quantitative research, enabling new insights into how law operates in practice. By applying a range of methods to study the content of the Court’s decisions, this book offers a new dimension to legal analysis, rendering it both scalable and multifaceted.
The publication is a vital resource for legal scholars and political scientists, particularly those working in public law and empirical legal studies. This approach not only broadens the scope of legal investigations but also deepens the insights gained, enabling researchers to address both doctrinal and institutional questions with newfound clarity.
At the helm of this groundbreaking work are Dr. Wolfgang Alschner, a Faculty member at the Centre for Law, Technology and Society, where he leads the Legal Technology Lab, and an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law, Common Law Section at the University of Ottawa, with Prof. Vanessa MacDonnell, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law, Common Law Section and director of the Public Law Centre, and Prof. Carissima Mathen, then Full Professor of Law and now a justice of the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario.
In addition to acting as co-editor, Dr. Aslchner co-authored two chapters: “A Bird’s-Eye View of the Canadian Supreme Court” with Keenan MacNeal, and “Using Network Citation Analysis to Reveal Precedential Archetypes at the Supreme Court of Canada” with Isabelle St-Hilaire.
The collection also includes “The Supreme Court of Canada and Mainstreamed Judicial Analytics”, a chapter co-authored by Dr. Amy Salyzyn and Prof. Jena McGill, both Faculty members at the Centre for Law, Technology and Society and Associate Professors in the Faculty of Law, Common Law Section at the University of Ottawa.
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