Resources

Margo Schlanger - Professor of Law and Director of the Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse

My Web-Accessible Resources

• Prison Grievance Procedures and Samples, 50 states et al.
• Prison Litigation Reform Act: Legislative History
• Seminar teaching PowerPoint: (Presentation to AALS Workshop for New Law Teachers)
  Note: Requires IE Explorer and High-Speed Connection
  • Download original PPT file for playing locally 
    (right click on link and choose "save as".)
    (This requires the four large video files below. Right click on file and choose "save as".) 
    • File 1 (AntiDemocratic.wmv)
    • File 2 (Milliken 2.wmv)
    • File 3 (Sam and Laura.wmv)
    • File 4 (Tinsley Injunction.wmv)
• Sources and datasets on American Trial Trends
• SSRN ejournal:  Corrections & Sentencing Law & Policy
• Federal Judicial Center data on all Article III judges, 1789-April 25, 2006.
  Original (wide) data (stata format)
  Do file to clean and reformat original data
  Long form (stata format)
• Technical Appendix for "Inmate Litigation," 116 Harv. L. Rev. 1555 (2003).
• Survey of jail and prison administrators
  • Department of Corrections Survey
  • Large Jail Network Survey
• Materials Written for Student Use
  • Torts supplemental reading on gender:
    • What would it mean to have a reasonable woman standard
    • Imputed contributory negligence and the relation of husband and wife.
  • The Difference between Jails and Prisons

Activities

• Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's Prisons (sponsored by the Vera Institute)
• Workshop on Empirical Research in the Law ("WERL")
  Meets weekly and is open to Wash. U. faculty: please e-mail mschlanger@wulaw.wustl.edu to be placed on the WERL listserve.  

Other Web Resources

• Resources relating to empirical work about law and courts (very much a list in progress)
  
  
  • American Judicature Society
  • Bureau of Justice Statistics
  • Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (Relevant Archived Datasets)
  • National Center for State Courts: court statistics project
  • National Criminal Justice Reference Project
  • St. Louis Circuit Court Historical Records Project
  • U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, On-line court records
  • Federal Judicial Center: Biographies of all past and present federal judges
  • Supreme Court Databases (compiled by Harold Spaeth)
  • The S. Sidney Ulmer Project - Databases and Archives includes:   
    
    • U.S. Supreme Court Databases
    • United States Courts of Appeals Cases
    • Attributes of United States Appeals Court Judges, 1801-1994
    • Lower Federal Court Confirmation Database, 1977-2004
    • State Supreme Court Database
  • Supreme Court Ideal Point Research (by Andrew Martin and Kevin Quinn)
  • Supreme Court Justice Database (Epstein et al.)
  • Supreme Court Justices' Papers:
    Library of Congress collections description
    • Blackmun papers website (Library of Congress)
    • Blackmun papers archive (currently in prototype) (Lee Epstein and Harold Spaeth)
  • "Teddy": State and federal statistics query engine (sponsored by Ted Eisenberg and Kevin Clermont, Cornell Law School)
    • Federal
    • State trials
    • State cases
  • Washington University Supreme Court Forecasting Project
  • Journals:
    • American Law and Economics Review
    • Journal of Empirical Legal Studies
    • Journal of Law and Economics
    • Journal of Law, Economics and Organization
    • Journal of Legal Studies
    • Justice System Journal (published by the National Center for State Courts)
    • Law and Social Inquiry
    • Law and Society Review
  • Famous Trials (University of Missouri at Kansas City)

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