The digitization of legal texts and advances in artificial intelligence, natural language
processing, text mining, network analysis, and machine learning have led to new forms of …

Research has shown that emotions matter in politics, but we know less about when and why
politicians use emotive rhetoric in the legislative arena. This article argues that emotive …

Contemporary dictionary-based approaches to sentiment analysis exhibit serious validity
problems when applied to specialized vocabularies, but human-coded dictionaries for such …

The rise of big data and machine learning is a polarizing force among those studying
inequality and the law. Big data and tools like predictive modeling may amplify inequalities …

With the increased politicization of agency rulemaking and the reduced cost of participating
in the notice-and-comment rulemaking process, administrative agencies have, in recent …

Judging and Emotion investigates how judicial officers understand, experience, display,
manage and deploy emotions in their everyday work, in light of their fundamental …

The graphic and bodily facts of a legal question of rights are relevant to the courts,
particularly in questions that directly implicate physical bodies and pain, such as right to die …

Student data privacy as a research focus and practice is relatively under-researched in the
context of massive open online courses (MOOCs). Central to researching student data …

Women are less successful than their male counterparts at Supreme Court oral arguments
under certain circumstances. However, existing work relies on mere presence rather than on …

Drawing on social-movement and sociolegal theorizing, we investigate legal-framing
innovations in the briefs of reproductive-rights cause lawyers in prominent US Supreme …