ALA Blog
ALA Team has produced one of the most cutting-edge articles in the areas of law and data science.
Crypto Litigation Analytics
Crypto assets and the crypto-asset ecosystem have introduced novel legal challenges, many of which have reached the United States judicial system.
ALA Team has offered the first empirical analysis of all crypto-related cases litigated in the United States, analyzing the number of cases, types of disputes, and causes of actions, among other criteria.
Big Data of California Contract Cases
Deploying machine learning and an originally-trained algorithm, the ALA Team has uncovered data suggesting the diminishing role of individuals in contract litigation in California. At the same time, ALA Team suggests that corporations have played a central role in the development of contract law, a trend likely to increase in the future.
This project contributes much-needed quantitative evidence to contract scholarship, which has long debated the centrality of corporate entities in shaping contract law but lacked the relevant empirical data.
Force Majeure and Covid-19 Cases Analytics
Experimental Consumer Research
For decades, courts and lawmakers grappled with issues related to arbitration, which resulted in a myriad of Supreme Court decisions, several bills sitting on Capitol Hill, and continuous circuit splits on various issues.
The ALA Team provides much-needed data that can help clarify some of these issues most notably arbitration’s effect on individuals’ decision to sue.