American legal history through computational methods. Law and legal practice modernized in the nineteenth-century United States. We are studying and visualizing the history of the modernization of American law.
Please see our project website for a full explanation of the project, as well as a list of the scholarship we have produced. Here is the citation for the project as a whole:
Kellen Funk and Lincoln Mullen, Legal Modernism, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (2022–): https://doi.org/10.31835/legalmodernism.
This repository contains all of the code for the project. Below are descriptions of the main parts of this repository. (Note that some of these repositories exist on feature branches not yet merged into the main branch.)
notebooks/: A directory of analytical notebooks.
These programs run the various data creation tasks for the project.
adj2edge/: Convert a network adjacency list to a network edge list.cite-detector/: Detect citations in legal sources programmatically.cite-predictor/: Augment citation detection using generative AI.cite-linker/: Link detected citations to a database of English and American caselaw.
db/: Migrations, queries, and other information about our PostgreSQL database.doi/: Records for the DOIs created for the project outputs.go/: Go packages for the various programs in the repository.scripts/: One-off scripts for data manipulation and import.test-data/: Sample data for development and testing.website/: Source code for our website, generated by Hugo.
The source code and data is available under an open-access license in LICENSE.txt. The prose and findings are © Kellen Funk and Lincoln Mullen, 2022–, with all rights reserved.