Institute for Insight
Legal Analytics Lab
Working at the intersection of data science and law to solve intractable problems and create a more just society.
An initiative of the J. Mack Robinson College of Business supported by Georgia State’s College of Law, the Legal Analytics Lab works toward a legal system that embraces data to solve intractable problems and create a more just society. The Lab brings business, legal, criminal justice, and other scholars together with data scientists to analyze millions of court records, corporate financial disclosures, contracts, patent applications, and other legal documents to identify patterns, evaluate how the law operates, and experiment with predicting future outcomes.
Lab faculty, students, and partners use the tools of data science, including natural language processing, machine and deep learning, network analysis, and other methodologies, to produce original research. They also work with strategic partners, including nonprofits, companies, and law firms, to help these organizations uncover patterns and 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
Representative 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
Kat Albrecht
Assistant Professor
Department of Criminal Justice & Criminology
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
Nathan Dahlberg
Research Associate
Institute for Insight
J. Mack Robinson College of Business
Expertise: Natural Language Processing; Machine Learning; Deep 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
Benjamin Lawrence
Aziz Hashim Professor of Franchise Entrepreneurship and Associate Professor
Timothy D. Lytton
Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Law
College of Law
Expertise: administrative law; torts; products liability; legislation and statutory interpretation
David Maimon
Associate Professor
Director, Evidence Based Cybersecurity Research Group
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
William Sabol
Distinguished University Professor
Department of Criminal Justice & Criminology
Susan Smelcer
Assistant Professor
Legal Analytics & Innovation Initiative
Lauren Sudeall
Associate Professor of Law
Director, Center for Access to Justice
Center for Access to Justice, Urban Studies Institute
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
Yanqing Wang
Assistant Professor
Institute for Insight
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
Douglas H. Yarn
Professor of Law
Director, Consortium on Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
College of Law
Expertise: alternative dispute resolution, conflict management