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Indeed, I'd recommend talking with Zach Elkins at UT Austin and Tom Ginsburg at the University of Chicago, as they jointly created the Comparative Constitutions Project (http://www.comparativeconstitutionsproject.org/) and ConstitutionMaking.org (http://www.constitutionmaking.org/) and have compiled I believe all written constitutions worldwide and their amendments 1789-present into digital form (including translating them).  I've collaborated with them in the past on exploring computational linguistic approaches to exploring the archive, and I know this kind of analysis is of interest to them, so you might reach out to them.


On an unrelated side note, I thought some of you on this list might find of interest one of my latest papers, out last week, on the geography of Twitter, and especially the sections on how geography interplays with the communicative networks of Twitter (http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4366/3654). 


~Kalev



On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Caroline Haythornthwaite <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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Kalev Leetaru at University of Illinois (http://www.kalevleetaru.com) has done work on digitizing constitutions and analyzing these, e.g. --

On the Interpretability of Law: Lessons from the Decoding of National Constitutions. British Journal of Political Science. (October 2012). With James Melton, Zachary Elkins, and Tom Ginsburg. Pp. 1-25.

/Caroline



On May 11, 2013, at 3:55 AM, Erin McGrath wrote:

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> Dear Colleagues:
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> Can anyone recommend sources on the application of network analysis -- probably semantic network analysis -- to law or legal documents?
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> In particular, I am interested in constitutional systems, for which I have found some very interesting theoretical work from lawyers (Adrian Vermeule) and political scientists (Jenna Bednar). I am looking more for applications and methodological help.
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> Thanks in advance and best wishes,
> Erin McGrath
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