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Empirical Legal Studies Blog  

Legal research centers

• The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy
  SUNY at Buffalo
• The Center for Interdisciplinary Law and Policy Studies
  Ohio State University
• Center for Law and Economic Studies
  Columbia Law School
• Institute for Legal Studies
  University of Wisconsin Law School
• Law and Society Association
• Center for the Study of Law and Society
  Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley
• The Institute for Law and Society
  New York University
• Program on Empirical Legal Studies
  Harvard University
• Wake Forest Center for Empirical Legal Studies
  Wake Forest Law Review
• Center for Empirical Research in the Law
  Washington University St. Louis
• Duke Law Library & Technology: Empirical Research Support
  Duke University

Data Collections and Resources

• IQSS Dataverse Network
  Harvard University
• Current Population Survey
  US Census Bureau
• Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
  University of Minnesota
• Bureau of Labor Statistics Home Page
• Lynn LoPucki's Bankruptcy Research Database
  Interactive analysis of large bankruptcies.
• National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
• General Social Survey (GSS)
  National Opinion Research Center
• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
• State Supreme Court Data Project
  A collaborative project of Rice and Michigan State
• The Ulmer Project
  aka The Spaeth Supreme Court Database
• The Odum Institute Data Archive
  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press -- Data Archive
  Pew survey datasets that are more than 6 months old
• CPANDA, the Cultural Policy & the Arts National Data Archive
• National Practitioner Data Bank & the Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank
• StatLibThis is an archive of datasets that are used in textbooks and articles
• Time Series Data Library
• Correlates of War
• Social Science Data Analysis Network
• American National Election Studies
• National Annenberg Election Survey
• The Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA)
  

Workshops and Seminars
These institutions offer workshops or seminars on social science methods and statistical applications, in some cases with a specific focus on social science research methods in the law.

• Essex Summer School in Social Science
  Data Analysis and Collection
  University of Essex, UK
• ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods
  University of Michigan
• Institution for Social and Policy Studies
  Yale University (click on "Summer Programs")
• Institute for Quantitative Social Science
  Harvard University
• Empirical Scholarship Workshop
  Northwestern School of Law

Other Links

• Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
• Statistical Associates Publishing
  G. David Garson, North Carolina State University
• The Statistics Homepage
  Electronic textbook from StatSoft
• Statistics at Square One
  Geared towards medicine, but easy to understand.
• Concepts and Applications of Inferential Statistics
  Richard Lowry, Vassar College
• Emerging Ideas
  Darren Schreiber's SWARM agent-based models