Research Assistant, National Science Foundation (NSF) — judicial decision data collection and coding
Collected and coded judicial decision data from appellate court sources in Canada and the United States to support comparative legal analysis. Performed legal citation analysis (including Shepardizing) to track how precedents are referenced and treated across court levels. Assisted in deriving ideological measures by gathering background information and analyzing decision patterns. • Worked with court decisions as the primary labeled/structured inputs • Applied a consistent coding approach to judicial outcomes and citation usage • Tracked relationships between precedents and how they are applied • Used the resulting structured dataset to inform comparative legal and ideological analysis