MSA 8350 - Legal Analytics

3 Credit Hours
Description
Cross listed with LAW 7675. This course introduces students to the emerging field of legal analytics, which employs computational and statistical modeling, analysis, and visualization of legal data to accomplish both descriptive and predictive goals. For analytics students, the course provides an introduction to the U.S. legal system and legal reasoning, legal materials, and the problems and questions present in the law. For law students, the course offers an introduction to basic coding, as well as to the theory and applications of text mining, natural language processing, machine learning and other methods for managing and analyzing unstructured data such as that found in legal documents.