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NEWS | Friday, April 25, 2008
Faculty Presentation
Professor Andrew Martin, director of the law school’s Center for Empirical Research in the Law (CERL), discussed the launching of the new center in 2006 and several of CERL’s major projects. The center is supporting cutting edge empirical research and technological support for projects such as the Martin-Quinn Scores, which measure the relative location of Supreme Court justices on an ideological continuum; the Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse, directed by Professor Schlanger, which offers an on-line, searchable database of numerous civil rights cases and court documents; Supreme Court Forecasting, a study of how legal experts and political scientists assess and predict Supreme Court decision-making; Equal Opportunity Employment Commission Litigation Analysis, a study of EEOC court records; Federal District Court Database, an on-line index of civil cases by category, year, and district court; and U.S. Supreme Court Judicial Database, a repository of the official records of the court from 1789 to the present. This last project is being conducted in conjunction with Michigan State, Northwestern, Princeton, Stony Brook, and the University of Pennsylvania. Both the Martin-Quinn Scores and EEOC projects are supported by grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF). CERL also has applied for an NFS grant to support an international empirical study of constitutional courts.
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