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Lecture, every Fall Semester
Target group: Bachelor students
Language: English
Description: The lecture explores the following questions, among others: What is empirical (legal) research and what is it used for? How do lawyers and courts use findings from empirical research? What are the phases of an empirical research project? How is legal data collected? What are the methods of analysis? How are empirical results communicated? What are the limits of empirical legal research? Here, the students practice the application of simple statistical methods to legal data. Examples from a variety of legal fields will be analyzed. Knowledge of statistics and R are not assumed.
Seminar, every Fall Semester
Target group: Bachelor/Master students
Language: English
Description: The aim of this seminar is to provide law students with a basic understanding of the empirical legal research progress - from conceptualization, through data collection and analysis, to reporting. Students will work collaboratively in small groups to conceptualize and implement a small empirical research project using basic statistical methods in R. Learning objectives include the ability to employ simple quantitative methods in the legal field using the approproate software and the knowledge on how to plan and carry out entry-level empirical research projects.
Lecture in the Fall Semester 2023
Target group: Bachelor students
Language: English
Description: This course is an introduction to programming especially designed for law students, where students will learn fundamental concepts and skills of programming that are relevant in legal contexts. Students will learn the syntax, control flow, data structures and file input/output in Python and will also gain an understanding of how algorithms and computational thinking are used in computer science, as well as how computational methods and tools can be used by lawyers.
Instructor: Prof. Dr. Alberto Bacchelli (UZH Department of Informatics)
Online course, every semester
Target group: Master/Doctoral students
Language: German
Description: The online course aims to provide advanced students with the skills in text mining they need to design and carry out their own simple empirical projects based on textual data.
Online course, every semester beginning in the Fall Semester 2023
Target group: Master/Doctoral students
Language: English
Description: This course aims to introduce students to legal data science and teach them competences in R and statistics. Students will for example learn how to analyze and visualize data using datasets with a legal context. The course is designed for law students who are interested in expanding their skillset to data science and intend to use these skills to conduct simple legal data science projects, for example as part of their master thesis or dissertation.
