Sources of Legal Data

Start here for an introduction to empirical legal studies in general.

A guide that provides a selection of sources for data on legal and law-related sources, primarily focused on online sources.

A list of commonly-used data sets and other resources.

A guide to resources including: statistics and datasets, journals and law reviews, treatises, current awareness and training resources, and bulk download availability.

A periodically updated collection of electronically-available data and statistics on a wide variety of legal and law-related topics, including U.S. and global economics, law enforcement and criminal justice, litigation, bankruptcy, finance, securities filings and enforcement, and U.S. government agency data.

A guide including current events, resources for data analysis, and topical statistical resources.

Includes data sources and a guide to writing with statistics.

Many U.S. government agencies conduct regular surveys and publish results related to population demographics, spending habits, and commodity use. Selected government resources are highlighted in this guide.

Free video workshops conducting empirical research on law to a wide range of empirical methods, both quantitative and qualitative.

ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) is an international consortium of more than 810 academic institutions and research organizations that provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for the social science research community.

Available in both electronic and print formats.

An "international organization of scholars interested in empirical legal studies." Publishes the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (JELS, available in both electronic and print formats.). Sponsors the Conference on the same (CELS).