Center for Empirical Research in the Law : Research : Infrastructure


RESEARCH
Introduction
Academic Expertise
Technological Expertise
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Infrastructure

Infrastructure

In the Information Age, scholars have unprecedented access to vast quantities of data. For those conducting empirical work, physically collecting and then processing and synthesizing such large quantities of data presents technological obstacles.

Typical challenges of current-day empirical research include:

Having access to a proper design and development environments
Comprehensive understanding of and access to pertinent technologies
Possessing adequate resources to responsibly compile and store data and results
A stable and reliable method for data dissemination

At CERL, much consideration has gone into handling these, as well as other, challenges. As result, we have constructed an internal infrastructure that affords us great lattitude with generous opportunity for vertical scalability in the future. Using enterprise-level technologies serviced and maintained by in-house technicians, we have a comprehensive server environment that allows us to focus our energies on the research at hand, not on whether our server has enough disk space or is about to buckle beneath the stress of a week-long computation.

Washington University / School of Law / Campus Box 1120 / St. Louis MO 63130
cerl@law.wustl.edu