Blogs and Organizations
- Center for Empirical Research in the Law at Washington University in St. LouisThe center supports the application of empirical methodology to legal studies research. It offers training workshops and courses on empirical methods to law students, doctoral students and legal academics.
- Empirical Legal Studies Blog"Serves as an online forum to discuss and provide links for emerging empirical legal scholarship, provide conference updates, discuss empirical claims that have emerged in public and political discourse, facilitate discussion for guest empirical scholars and assess current empirical findings and methodologies."
- Empirical SCOTUSDatasets and analysis about the U.S. Supreme Court.
- Society of Empirical Legal Studies (SELS)SELS is an international organization of scholars interested in empirical legal studies. They sponsor the annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (CELS).
Books
Advanced Introduction to Empirical Legal Research by ISBN: 97818391010699Publication Date: 2021, digital ebookPart of the College of Law's Study Aids package
Basic Concepts of Probability and Statistics in the Law by ISBN: 9780387875002Publication Date: 2009, available in print and digital formats
The Cambridge Dictionary of Statistics by Publication Date: 2010, digital ebook"...clear, reliable definitions and explanations of modern statistical and statistics-related concepts" ... "Definitions provide enough mathematical detail to clarify concepts and give standard formulae when these are helpful. The majority of definitions then give a reference to a book or article where the user can seek further or more specialized information..."
Empirical Legal Research by Call Number: K85 .L439ISBN: 9781782549390Publication Date: 2016subtitled: A guidance book for lawyers, legislators and regulators
Articles
- Theodore Eisenberg, Why Do Empirical Legal Scholarship?, 41 San Diego L. Rev. 1741 (2004)
- Lee Epstein & Gary King, Building an Infrastructure for Empirical Research in the Law, 53 J. Legal Educ. 311 (2003)
- Lee Epstein & Gary King, The Rules of Inference, 69 U. Chi. L. Rev. 1 (2002)
- Tracey E. George, An Empirical Study of Empirical Legal Scholarship: The Top Law Schools, 81 Ind. L. J. 141 (2006)
- James Lindgren, Predicting the Future of Empirical Legal Studies, 86 B.U. L. Rev. 1447 (2006)
- Gregory Mitchell, Empirical Legal Scholarship as Scientific Dialogue, 83 N.C. L. Rev. 167 (2004)
- Jennifer K. Robbennolt, Evaluating Empirical Research Methods: Using Empirical Research in Law and Policy, 81 Neb. L. Rev . 777 (2002)
- Shari Seidman Diamond and Mueller, Pam, Empirical Legal Scholarship in Law Reviews, 6 Ann. Rev. L. & Soc. Sci. 581 (2010).
Data Sets
- Data.govA portal that allows the public to find, download, and use datasets that are generated by the U.S. federal government.
- Drake Law Library Statistics GuideSee the library's separate research guide on the topic of statistics for additional resources and data sets.
- Florida Office of Economic & Demographic Research (OEDR)Provides statistics on population, housing, business and government in Florida.
- Fordham University Law Library Empirical Research GuideThis extensive guide discusses statistical analysis software packages and a wide variety of general and topic-specific data sources.
- ICPSR: Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social ResearchICPSR is the world's largest archive of digital social science data. FIU is a member institution. Users must create a free account to view data. The account must be created on campus. Once an account is created, it can be accessed on or off campus. To be viewed or manipulated, some data may require SAS or SPSS programs.
- U.S. Census BureauThe Census Bureau collects and disseminates data on a variety of topics including poverty, housing, employment and income.
- World Development IndicatorsProvides country specific and aggregate data on a variety of topics such as population growth, education levels, development indicators or debt. Users can select variables to generate reports or export data.