'DIGITAL HUMANITIES' approach in legal research uses:
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D.
1. DIGITAL HUMANITIES approaches in legal research apply computational methods:
2. (i) TEXT MINING — extracting patterns from large legal corpora;
3. (ii) NETWORK ANALYSIS — citation networks in case law (which cases cite which);
4. (iii) TOPIC MODELLING — LDA, identifying themes in judgments;
5. (iv) SENTIMENT ANALYSIS — emotional tone in opinions;
6. (v) MACHINE LEARNING — predicting case outcomes, classifying documents;
7. (vi) NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (NLP) — semantic search of judgments.
8. TOOLS:
9. (i) COURTLISTENER (USA) — free repository;
10. (ii) ROSS INTELLIGENCE (now defunct) — AI legal research;
11. (iii) LEX MACHINA — case analytics;
12. (iv) RAVEL LAW (US courts);
13. (v) INDIA: INDIANKANOON, SCC Online with analytics features.
14. Used by Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy and other research institutions in India.
15. Hence option B is correct.
_Source: Legal Research Methodology + Jurisprudence — Computational Legal Studies; Digital Humanities approaches in law_
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