ABSTRACT
Sources of the data are varied and include data created as part of processes within legal organizations, the documents that make up the law itself, and experimental data generated to explore legal aspects of human societies. There are important aspects of the legal industry that make data applications more complicated than they are in other disciplines. In contrast, having legal input at the preliminary design stage makes integrating these considerations into systems comparatively cheap and easy. Legal research has changed a great deal in the last thirty years as it has become digitized, and the majority of it is done online. The possibilities for academic research driven by data analysis are substantial. Court and tribunal issued decisions have been some of the most commonly used sources of data for analysis. Academic research in law and other disciplines such as criminology and computer science has been an important driver in the development of the understanding of legal data.
