constitution

  • New Topic Integration Tool Solves Core Research Challenge

    CCP’s Concept Integration in Comparative Law project has launched a new tool that solves a core challenge faced by researchers working with large corpora like constitutions or court rulings. It develops a new approach by combining the efficiency of automated text analysis with the accuracy of domain expertise when identifying and tracking new topics in a corpus. This new Segments-as-Topics tool allows…

  • CCP Co-Director Releases New Report on the UK Constitution

    James Melton, Senior Lecturer at University College London and CCP co-director, has released a new report, “To Codify or Not to Codify: Lessons from Consolidating the United Kingdom’s Constitutional Statutes,” which finds that codification of the UK’s constitution is not essential. Read more or view the full report.

  • New Paper Uses Constitute to Analyze Environmental Rights

    Joshua C. Gellers, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of North Florida, used Constitute to help build his dataset on the expansion of constitutional environmental rights for his most recent publication, “Explaining the emergence of constitutional environmental rights: a global quantitative analysis.” Dr. Gellers calls Constitute an…