Steve Schultze, a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard. interested in how telecommunications policy changes in the context of the internet.
The Computational Legal Studies Blog is an attempt to disseminate legal studies that employ a computational or complex systems component. We hope this venue will serve as a coordinating device for those interested in using such techniques to consider the development of legal systems and/or implementation of more reasoned public policy.
This public resource provides information about 400,000 bills introduced in the U.S. Congress, currently 1947-2002, along with extensive information about each bill's progress and sponsor. It is used by researchers to study legislative institutions and behavior; by policy experts to study issue attention in Congress; and even by citizens studying their family histories (the dataset provides the only digitized records of tens of thousands of private bills introduced between 1947 and 1972). organized in a format that facilitates quantitative studies. the only digitizedsource for information about the 200,000 bills introduced between 1947 and 1972.