Workshop on the Identification and Integration of Law and Court Data

法律和法院学者来自不同的学科背景(如犯罪学、政治学、社会学)，往往不了解自己所在学科以外的相关知识或研究。这阻碍了对法律和法院学者感兴趣的现象的更广泛的理解，并促进了本应具有广泛吸引力但未得到充分利用的经验数据集的产生。这次拟议的研讨会意在帮助纠正这种情况。拟议的研讨会将由围绕三个目标组织的小组讨论组成。第一个小组将侧重于确定现有的数据集，以及如何将这些数据集有利可图地用于推进与法律和法院有关的多学科研究。第二个小组将侧重于经验数据的整合，以解决法律和法院学者感兴趣的研究问题，特别是可以促进理论理解的问题。第三个小组将侧重于旨在衡量关键概念的数据(例如，法官的意识形态)。它将把资深学者、初级学者和研究生聚集在一起，促进就利用现有数据集的最佳方式进行交流和对话，以及确定应该开发的新数据集。

Law and courts scholars come from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds (e.g., criminology, political science, sociology) and are frequently unaware of relevant knowledge or research in disciplines outside their own. This impedes a broader understanding of phenomenon of interest to law and courts scholars and fosters the generation of empirical datasets that should have broad appeal but that are under-utilized. This proposed workshop is intended to contribute to the remediation of this situation. The proposed workshop will consist of panels organized around three objectives. The first panel will focus on the identification of extant datasets and how such datasets can be profitably used to advance multi-disciplinary research related to law and courts. The second panel will focus on the integration of empirical data to address research questions of interest to law and courts scholars, particularly questions that can advance theoretical understanding. The third panel will focus on data intended to measure key concepts (e.g., ideology of judges). It will bring together senior scholars, junior scholars, and graduate students to foster exchange and dialogue over the best way to leverage existing datasets, as well as to identify new datasets that should be developed.