Collaborative Research: The U.S. Supreme Court Justices Database

美国国家科学基金会资助了几个关于曾在美国上诉法院和地方法院任职的法官的属性的综合多用户数据库。美国最高法院没有精确的类比。现有的唯一关于最高法院大法官的电子数据库(美国最高法院大法官传记数据，1789-1958)不包括1958年后任命或提名的任何大法官，而且由于各种其他限制，对研究人员来说，信息和有用程度远远低于现有的下级法院数据库。该提案通过创建一个多用户的公共数据库来填补这一空白，其中包含美国最高法院提名(无论是否确认)个人的丰富信息。具体地说，该数据库将包括238个变量，大致分为5类：身份识别、背景特征和个人属性、提名、在法院任职和离开法官。PI将在相关的名单服务器上宣布其完成情况，将其与ICPSR一起存档，以及在各种网站上。它将以多种电子形式(如SPSS、STATA、ASCII和Excel文件)和几种格式(一种主要是字母格式；另一种主要是数字格式)提供，从而增加了学术、政策和新闻界的可及性。

The National Science Foundation has funded several comprehensive multi-user databases on the attributes of judges who have served on the U.S. Courts of Appeals and District Courts. No precise analog exists for the U.S. Supreme Court. The only existing electronic database on justices of the Supreme Court (United States Supreme Court Justices Biographical Data, 1789-1958) does not include any justices appointed or nominated after 1958 and, owing to various other limitations, is far less informative and useful to researchers than the existing lower court data bases.The proposal fills this void by creating a multi-user, public database containing a wealth of information on individuals nominated (whether confirmed or not) to the U.S. Supreme Court. Specifically, the database will include 238 variables, falling roughly into 5 categories: identifiers, background characteristics and personal attributes, nominations, service on the Court, and departures from the bench. The PI's will announce its completion on pertinent listservs, archive it with the ICPSR, as well as on various web sites. It will be available in multiple electronic forms (as SPSS, Stata, ASCII, and Excel files) and in several formats (one, largely alpha; the other, largely numeric) thereby increasing its accessibility to scholarly, policy, and journalistic communities.