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Where Law Meets Data 
 

Welcome to Digital Legal Studies (DLS) — a community where lawyers, researchers, and students explore what law can become when it meets data, code, and curiosity. Whether you're writing your first line of Python or your fifth journal article, you'll find something here for you.

DLS in Numbers

17

Digital Law Platforms Monitored

21

University Lectures Featuring DLS

25+

Scholars in the Field

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If you want to understand the law, you have to study it empirically. You have to look at what legal institutions and actors actually do, not just what they say they do. 

Lee Epstein, An Introduction to Empirical Legal Research

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Projects

Discover digital legal initiatives — ours and the global community's — that turn real legal questions into data, code, and insight.

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Publications

Browse the books and articles shaping empirical and computational legal studies, from the classics to this year's frontier.

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Databases

Explore open, structured legal data — ready for your next research idea.

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