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This page features links to some useful data collections for Law Courts Justice. Because the contents of these collections change frequently, these links should direct users to the top-level of data collections, rather than specific data sets.

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Calculate Ideal Points of Federal Judges: .This program implements the Giles, Hettinger, Peppers (GHP) method of estimating ideal points of federal judges in common policy space.

Comparative Constitutions Project: .Comprehensive data about the world's constitutions, download data page.

Constitute Project: .Beautiful online environment to read, search, and compare the world's constitutions

Create Cross-Tabulations with US Circuit Court Data: .This resource allows you to analyze some of the variables coded in Phase Three of the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals Database (2003-2010).

EEOC Litigation Project: .Data on federal court litigation from 1997 to 2006, inclusive, by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Federal Judicial Center Biographical Database: .Extremely helpful resource for research on federal judges.

Gun Violence Archive: .online archive of gun violence incidents, provides near-real time data about the results of gun violence.

High Courts Judicial Database: .The High Courts Judicial Database (HCJD) provides coded information on the content of universes or random samples of the decisions produced by eleven of the top courts of the world.

Judicial Research Initiative: .From the University of South Carolina, easy to navigate site contains key datasets for judicial behavior research
Judicial Workload, Jury Verdicts & Crime Data: .Links compiled by Harvard Law School Library.

Martin-Quinn Scores: .Contains the so-called "Martin-Quinn" measures of judicial ideology.

National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD): .Archives and disseminates data on crime and justice for secondary analysis. The archive contains data from over 2,700 curated studies or statistical data series.

Religion and State Project Constitutions Dataset: .Constitutional clauses that address religion for 177 countries on a yearly basis between 1990 and 2008.

Supreme Court Citation Network Data: .This page contains links to two sets of data on citations in the U.S. Supreme Court from the U.S. Reports.
Supreme Court Database: .the definitive source, contains over two hundred pieces of information about each case decided between 1946 and 2012.

TRAC Immigration Tool: .Data on immigration court actions, deportations.
Transitional Justice Research Collaborative: .data on three primary transitional justice mechanisms - human rights prosecutions, truth commissions, and amnesties - for 109 democratic transitions in 86 countries around the world, from 1970-2012.

World Justice Project: .WJP's original research and data is grounded in the World Justice Project Rule of Law Index

Calculate Ideal Points of Federal Judges: .This program implements the Giles, Hettinger, Peppers (GHP) method of estimating ideal points of federal judges in common policy space.
Comparative Constitutions Project: .Comprehensive data about the world's constitutions, download data page.
Constitute Project: .Beautiful online environment to read, search, and compare the world's constitutions
Create Cross-Tabulations with US Circuit Court Data: .This resource allows you to analyze some of the variables coded in Phase Three of the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals Database (2003-2010).

EEOC Litigation Project: .Data on federal court litigation from 1997 to 2006, inclusive, by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Federal Judicial Center Biographical Database: .Extremely helpful resource for research on federal judges.

Gun Violence Archive: .online archive of gun violence incidents, provides near-real time data about the results of gun violence.

High Courts Judicial Database: .The High Courts Judicial Database (HCJD) provides coded information on the content of universes or random samples of the decisions produced by eleven of the top courts of the world.

Judicial Research Initiative: .From the University of South Carolina, easy to navigate site contains key datasets for judicial behavior research
Judicial Workload, Jury Verdicts & Crime Data: .Links compiled by Harvard Law School Library.

Martin-Quinn Scores: .Contains the so-called "Martin-Quinn" measures of judicial ideology.

National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD): .Archives and disseminates data on crime and justice for secondary analysis. The archive contains data from over 2,700 curated studies or statistical data series.

Religion and State Project Constitutions Dataset: .Constitutional clauses that address religion for 177 countries on a yearly basis between 1990 and 2008.

Supreme Court Citation Network Data: .This page contains links to two sets of data on citations in the U.S. Supreme Court from the U.S. Reports.
Supreme Court Database: .the definitive source, contains over two hundred pieces of information about each case decided between 1946 and 2012.

TRAC Immigration Tool: .Data on immigration court actions, deportations.
Transitional Justice Research Collaborative: .data on three primary transitional justice mechanisms - human rights prosecutions, truth commissions, and amnesties - for 109 democratic transitions in 86 countries around the world, from 1970-2012.

World Justice Project: .WJP's original research and data is grounded in the World Justice Project Rule of Law Index

Calculate Ideal Points of Federal Judges: .This program implements the Giles, Hettinger, Peppers (GHP) method of estimating ideal points of federal judges in common policy space.
Comparative Constitutions Project: .Comprehensive data about the world's constitutions, download data page.
Constitute Project: .Beautiful online environment to read, search, and compare the world's constitutions
Create Cross-Tabulations with US Circuit Court Data: .This resource allows you to analyze some of the variables coded in Phase Three of the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals Database (2003-2010).

EEOC Litigation Project: .Data on federal court litigation from 1997 to 2006, inclusive, by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Federal Judicial Center Biographical Database: .Extremely helpful resource for research on federal judges.

Gun Violence Archive: .online archive of gun violence incidents, provides near-real time data about the results of gun violence.

High Courts Judicial Database: .The High Courts Judicial Database (HCJD) provides coded information on the content of universes or random samples of the decisions produced by eleven of the top courts of the world.

Judicial Research Initiative: .From the University of South Carolina, easy to navigate site contains key datasets for judicial behavior research
Judicial Workload, Jury Verdicts & Crime Data: .Links compiled by Harvard Law School Library.

Martin-Quinn Scores: .Contains the so-called "Martin-Quinn" measures of judicial ideology.

National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD): .Archives and disseminates data on crime and justice for secondary analysis. The archive contains data from over 2,700 curated studies or statistical data series.

Religion and State Project Constitutions Dataset: .Constitutional clauses that address religion for 177 countries on a yearly basis between 1990 and 2008.

Supreme Court Citation Network Data: .This page contains links to two sets of data on citations in the U.S. Supreme Court from the U.S. Reports.
Supreme Court Database: .the definitive source, contains over two hundred pieces of information about each case decided between 1946 and 2012.

TRAC Immigration Tool: .Data on immigration court actions, deportations.
Transitional Justice Research Collaborative: .data on three primary transitional justice mechanisms - human rights prosecutions, truth commissions, and amnesties - for 109 democratic transitions in 86 countries around the world, from 1970-2012.

World Justice Project: .WJP's original research and data is grounded in the World Justice Project Rule of Law Index

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