REU Site: Digital Legal Research Lab

该项目通过社会，行为和经济科学（SBE）理事会的本科生研究经验（REU）网站计划资助。它具有科学和社会效益，并将研究与教育结合起来。掌握法律和科学研究的核心概念，可以更深入地探索法律与社会之间的历史偶然性和持续性关系;然而，很少有本科生接受过严格的法律分析训练。数字法律的研究实验室REU网站的总体目标是为本科研究人员的多样化队列提供从事数字法律的调查所需的分析和技术技能，并在法律和科学的研究中产生新的见解。这种基础培训将帮助学生开发自己的分析问题，传播研究成果，建立独特的研究身份，并为资助机会和研究生课程制定有竞争力的申请。这个REU网站将吸引一群多元化的学生，他们为数字法律的研究提供独特的视角。该计划将使法律和科学领域多样化，并培养有才华的本科生，以推进对犯罪，暴力和警务过去和现在趋势的批判性调查;法律的决策;法律的动员和司法概念;诉讼和法律的职业。 为期十周的密集课程将每年支持八名本科生，并将包括有效分析历史和正在进行的法律的实践和结构所需的各种方法和工具的方向，介绍混合方法研究设计，以及对数字和物理存储库的主要源材料的分析。具体而言，学生将分析自由诉讼和人身保护请愿书，包括1770年至1924年之间的自由决策的重要案例研究，以展示边缘化请愿者的广泛法律的动员，他们在漫长的十九世纪挑战剥削，其基本上未经审查和未发表的故事是美国法律的佳能的核心。 除了评估被边缘化的人的法律的动员反对各种形式的机构和人际限制的趋势外，研究人员将参与档案法律的数据的创新重组，从传统的索引形式转向注重案件当事人姓名和日期的系统，优先考虑各当事人和请愿类型的人口和关系数据。使用混合方法的方法，研究人员将提供有关家庭法，联邦印度法律，移民法，劳动法，道德警务和slavery.This奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

This project is funded through the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Sites program in the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). It has both scientific and societal benefits and integrates research with education. Mastering concepts central to the study of law and science enables a deeper exploration of the historically contingent and ongoing relationships between law and society; however, few undergraduates are trained to engage in rigorous analysis of the law. The overall goal of the Digital Legal Research Lab REU Site is to equip a diverse cohort of undergraduate researchers with the analytical and technical skills needed to engage in digital legal inquiry and generate new insights in the study of law and science. This foundational training will prepare students to develop their own analytical questions, disseminate research findings, establish distinct research identities, and craft competitive applications for funding opportunities and graduate programs. This REU Site will engage a diverse group of students who contribute unique perspectives to digital legal research. This program will diversify the fields of law and science and train talented undergraduates to advance critical inquiry into past and present trends in crime, violence, and policing; legal decision making; legal mobilization and conceptions of justice; and litigation and the legal profession. The intensive ten-week program will support eight undergraduate students per year and will include an orientation to the varied methodologies and tools needed to effectively analyze historical and ongoing legal practices and structures, an introduction to mixed-methods research design, and analysis of primary source materials from digital and physical repositories. Specifically, students will analyze freedom suits and habeas petitions comprising a vital case study of freedom-making between 1770 and 1924 to demonstrate the widespread legal mobilization of marginalized petitioners who challenged exploitation during the long nineteenth century, and whose largely unexamined and unpublished stories are central to the American legal canon. In addition to assessing trends in marginalized people’s legal mobilization against various forms of institutional and interpersonal confinement, researchers will participate in the innovative restructuring of archival legal data that shifts away from traditional forms of indexing focused on case party names and dates to a system that prioritizes demographic and relational data across parties and petition types. Using a mixed methods approach, researchers will offer novel insights relevant to family law, federal Indian law, immigration law, labor law, morals policing, and slavery.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.