LexComputa
LexComputa is a learning hub for legal researchers exploring coding, data, and computational methods in law. It provides curated tutorials, interactive tools, and community-led CLS seminars to empower lawyers and scholars with practical skills in Python, data analysis, and legal text mining.
1. Legal Text Engineering
*Turkish Court Text Preprocessing Project
This project develops a standardized pipeline for processing Turkish civil and administrative court decisions. It focuses on document cleaning, segmentation, and paragraph labeling (e.g., "Legal Reasoning," "Request," "Conclusion").
The output enables scalable applications for legal natural language processing (NLP) models trained on Turkish legal texts.
2. Court Analytics Lab
*Judicial Divergence in EU Sanctions Enforcement
This study compares national court decisions and the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on the enforcement of EU sanctions. Through doctrinal classification and NLP-assisted tagging, the project identifies patterns of divergence in areas such as rights-based reasoning and proportionality.
Results and code will be made publicly available on GitHub.
3. CLS Workshop Series
A hands-on training program for lawyers and researchers exploring the intersection of law, data, and computation.
Planned Modules:
CLS I- What is Computational Legal Studies?
CLS II- Law as Data: How to Read Legal Texts Computationally
CLS III- Getting Started with Python for Legal Minds
CLS IV- Reading and Cleaning Legal Texts in Python
CLS V- Making Your First Legal Dataset
4. Law & Regulation Mapping
1.KVKK–GDPR Comparative Tracker
A legal mapping project comparing Turkey’s Personal Data Protection Law (KVKK) with the EU GDPR. It aligns key provisions to highlight regulatory convergence and divergence in data protection frameworks. GitHub resources will include article-by-article tables and research notes.
2.Mapping Investment Treaty Commitments
An empirical project that extracts core legal clauses from bilateral investment treaties (BITs) using metadata from UNCTAD. Focus areas include ISDS, expropriation, and MFN provisions. Outputs will be available on GitHub to support treaty comparison and legal analytics.
