1 december 2022
Case Law Explorer: UI
Legal scholars and law students generally analyse court decisions by means of human analysis. Case Law Explorer is a tool for conducting network analysis on Dutch (and in the near future also European) case law, directed at law students and legal researchers. The software enables extracting, processing, and visualizing citations in court decisions (references in court decisions to other decisions). The software allows finding precedents (court decisions that provide rules that can be applied to solve current or future cases) and identifying groups of decisions on similar (sub-)topics. The link to the materials covers the documentation for the software, including the link to the software itself. The web application draws data from a data pipeline that extracts, transforms, and loads case law. The data pipeline, the underlying software platform, and links to Github repositories, can be found at https://maastrichtlawtech.github.io/case-explorer-ui/#/.