Legal Analytics and Research

Course aim

The aim of this course is to develop skills in legal analytics, research and writing.
Legal analytics tools help lawyers explore and analyse law firm data, litigation processes, corporate disclosures, regulatory determinations, contracts, and other legal material to identify, evaluate how the law functions and even predict how the law will function.
During this course students will learn how to use legal analytics tools to draw insights from various sources of legal data. They will apply their analysis to research issues related to legal policy development and/or the operation of the law.

Course content

• Formulating researchable questions
• Identifying and collating empirical legal research data
• Introduction to Legal Analytics
• Hypothesis testing and prediction; simple and multiple linear regression
• Introduction to AI in legal and regulatory design
• Challenges of using AI in legal policy research
• Communicating research outputs to professional and lay persons

Textbook(s)

Lee Epstein & Andrew D Martin 2014, An Introduction to Empirical Legal Research, Oxford University Press

Prerequisite(s)

Common to all relevant programs
Subject Area & Catalogue Number	Course Name
LAWS 1020	Legal Policy, Lawmaking and Justice

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Component	Duration
INTERNAL, CITY WEST
Lecture	1 Hour x 10 weeks
Tutorial	3 Hours x 10 weeks

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Quantitative exercise, Report

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
Commonwealth Supported program (Band 4C)
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