Law, Culture, and Society: Visualizing the Connections

Prof. Opderbeck will develop a class project that would apply digital humanities tools to legal codes, statutes, judicial opinions, and other sources of positive law. The overarching purpose would be to encourage students to use digital tools to gather relevant legal and related cultural texts and materials, render them into searchable and machine-readable format, and perform data visualizations and other analyses to demonstrate connections between the legal texts and broader historical and cultural events. A final project might involve creating a website collecting the resources and displaying the analytic results.