Resumen de Public Records Aren't Public: Systemic Barriers to Measuring Court Functioning & Equity
The nascent field of computational law has grown dramatically in recent decades, with an interdisciplinary universe of scholars tackling a variety of theoretical and empirical projects that consider both law-as-code and law-asdata. Law professors Frankenreiter and Livermore name and distinguish these two trends in computational legal analysis as the project of modeling law as a set of rules (law-as-code) versus the project of extracting information from legal text to apply to other research problems (law-as-data).1 Here, we focus more specifically on applications of law-as-data, but more generally argue that there is a system-level problem constraining both types of legal analysis that has yet to be dealt with.
