They think that analyzing laws this way reveals what legislators or subjects most need to know: under what conditions the coercive power of law will ultimately be met.
The lawyer capable of writing code and the coder able to analyze law remain rare.
Study after study that has analyzed law enforcement behavior confirms that African Americans, Latinos, and Asian Americans are all disproportionately targeted for law enforcement surveillance.
The report, released Wednesday by the American Civil Liberties Union, analyzed law enforcement policies of 119 California school districts, including 50 of its most populous.
A lawyer's core competence, said Prof. Lawrence M. Grosberg, who has taught law at New York Law School for 18 years, includes the ability to analyze laws, to negotiate with an adversary, to present oral arguments and to interview clients and witnesses.
What we take from collective choice theory is the idea of cross-level relationships, developing a formal, quantitative and yet number-free conceptual framework in which one can analyze law-like principles about what is 'in principle' possible.
His unique talent for researching, knowing, remembering, and analyzing the law earned him the respectful and affectionate title of "The Law Man".
To verify formally whether or not the distributions do indeed exhibit power law behavior we performed a maximum likelihood fit for a power law distribution using the methodology developed by Clauset et al. for analyzing power law behavior in empirical data [41].
"But we have to go through a process of analyzing the law in detail first".
And it has stirred anger and tumult among many Justice Department statisticians, who say their independence in analyzing important law enforcement data has been compromised.
