International Law and Big Data

National security decisions pose a paradox: they are among the most consequential a government can make, but are generally the least transparent to...

Virtue jurisprudence is an approach to normative legal theory that answers normative questions about law from a perspective that is centred on the...

The recently-announced $50 billion loan package from the G7 nations to Ukraine fell short of the $300 billion or so hoped for by the designers of its...

Although research suggests that countries' colonial experiences are associated with a range of contemporary outcomes, the link between colonial...

Citation rankings have emerged as a popular approach to ranking the scholarly impact of law faculties. This paper develops a statistical approach for...

Annotation and classification of legal text are central components of empirical legal research. Traditionally, these tasks are often delegated to...

Large language models (LLMs) now perform extremely well on many natural language processing tasks. Their ability to convert legal texts to data may...

Assessing the legitimacy of any legal system is hard, but especially if the system in question is the volatile and contested field of international...

The Supreme Court has overruled Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, finally interring a doctrine of statutory interpretation that it had...

The use of autonomy to initiate force, which states may begin to view as necessary to protect against hypersonic attacks and other forms of ‘hyperwar...

After two years of debate in Congress and the broader world over forfeiting the frozen assets of the Russian Central Bank for the benefit of Ukraine...

There have been many many, many proposals to use Russia’s frozen assets to help Ukraine. Russia’s invasion violated international law; reparations are...

Countries hit by unexpected crises often look to their overseas diasporas for assistance. Some countries have tapped into this generosity of their...

These are momentous times for the comparative analysis of judicial behaviour. Once the sole province of US political scientists, a new generation of...

The view that international law functions independently of municipal law (hermetically), does not reflect contemporary international practice. Instead...

In an international system that lacks centralized authority, the burden of enforcing the law generally falls on individual states. In many areas of...

This chapter provides an overview of computational text analysis techniques used to study judicial behavior and decision-making. As legal texts become...

Moore v. United States raises the question whether unrealized gains, such as an increase in property value or a stock portfolio, constitute “incomes...