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），往往不知道自己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，并促进了经验数据集的产生，这些数据集应该具有广泛的吸引力，但没有得到充分利用。这个拟议的讲习班旨在为纠正这种情况作出贡献。拟议的讲习班将由围绕三个目标组织的小组组成。第一个小组将侧重于现有数据集的识别，以及如何将这些数据集有效地用于推进与法律和法院相关的多学科研究。第二个小组将集中于实证数据的整合，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。第三个小组将集中讨论旨在衡量关键概念（例如，法官的意识形态）的数据。它将汇集高级学者、初级学者和研究生，就利用现有数据集的最佳方式促进交流和对话，并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.