Institute for Insight
Legal Analytics Lab
Tackling projects at the intersection of business, law and big data
A new initiative of the J. Mack Robinson College of Business supported by Georgia State’s College of Law is bringing business and legal scholars together with data scientists to analyze millions of litigation filings and outcomes, corporate financial disclosures, patent applications and other legal documents to identify patterns and evaluate how the law operates to predict future outcomes.
Lab faculty, students and corporate partners will use the tools of big data analytics, including text mining, machine learning, image analysis and other methodologies, to produce original research. They also will work with strategic partners, including companies and law firms, to help these organizations uncover predictors within large volumes of data.
Bring Us Your Challenges.
Harness the power of analytics to identify patterns in legal documents and predict future outcomes.
Contact:
Charlotte S. Alexander
Director
Legal Analytics Lab
calexander@gsu.edu
Current Projects
- For an international provider of insurance coverage to directors and officers, mining corporate disclosure filings and other materials to uncover predictors of securities class action lawsuit filings and litigation outcomes
- For the U.S. Department of Labor, using text mining and machine learning to analyze judges’ decisions in cases where a worker’s status as an employee or independent contractor is in dispute.
- Through the Labor Department grant, working with the Free Law Project to expand a free searchable archive of federal court opinions. (Free PACER archive adds millions of new documents, ABA Journal; Millions of PACER Documents Made Free, FindLaw)
- Using networking mapping and analysis to understand a substantial increase in Fair Labor Standards Act litigation and its spread across jurisdictions.
- Using machine learning to identify fintech patent applications and to assess their impact on the financial services industry.
Lab Faculty
Charlotte S. Alexander
Lab Director
Associate Professor of Legal Studies
Department of Risk Management & Insurance
J. Mack Robinson College of Business
Secondary Appointment, College of Law
Expertise: employment law; civil litigation trends; empirical legal studies; law and analytics
Yichen Cheng
Assistant Professor of Business Analytics
Institute for Insight
J. Mack Robinson College of Business
Expertise: big data; high dimensional data analysis; machine learning
Matthew D. DeAngelis
Assistant Professor of Accountancy
School of Accountancy
J. Mack Robinson College of Business
Expertise: disclosure; textual analysis; linguistics
Mohammad Javad Feizollahi
Assistant Professor of Business Analytics
Institute for Insight
J. Mack Robinson College of Business
Expertise: operations research and optimization; smart grid analytics; power system optimization; large-scale mixed-integer programming; decentralized and distributed optimization; robust and stochastic programming
Timothy D. Lytton
Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Law
College of Law
Expertise: administrative law; torts; products liability; legislation and statutory interpretation
Arun Rai
Regents’ Professor
J. Mack Robinson Chair of IT-Enabled Supply Chains and Process Innovation
James A. Harkins III Professor in Information Systems
Co-founder, Center for Process Innovation
Department of Computer Information Systems
J. Mack Robinson College of Business
Expertise: strategic management of IT; IT-enabled innovation; supply chain management; health information technology
Jonathan Todres
Professor of Law
College of Law
Expertise: international human rights; corporate social responsibility; international law; torts
Anne Tucker
Associate Professor of Law
College of Law
Expertise: corporate law, contracts, institutional and retirement investors
Deepa Varadarajan
Assistant Professor of Legal Studies
Department of Risk Management & Insurance
J. Mack Robinson College of Business
Secondary Appointment, College of Law
Expertise: domestic and international intellectual property law; property law
Ramsi Woodcock
Assistant Professor of Legal Studies
Department of Risk Management & Insurance
J. Mack Robinson College of Business
Secondary Appointment, College of Law
Expertise: antitrust; remedies; property; intellectual property
Yusen Xia
Professor of Management and Business Analytics
Director, Institute for Insight
Department of Management; Institute for Insight
J. Mack Robinson College of Business
Expertise: structured and unstructured data analytics; algorithm design and machine learning; operations and supply chain management
Baozhong Yang
Associate Professor of Finance
Department of Finance
J. Mack Robinson College of Business
Expertise: corporate finance; investments and asset pricing; financial institutions and regulation
Douglas H. Yarn
Professor of Law
Director, Consortium on Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
College of Law
Expertise: alternative dispute resolution, conflict management
Kai Zhao
Assistant Professor of Business Analytics
Institute for Insight
J. Mack Robinson College of Business
Expertise: data mining; big data analytics