Mass Digitization of Chinese Court Decisions

IF 0.8 Q2 LAW
B. Liebman, Margaret E. Roberts, R. Stern, Alice Z. Wang
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Abstract

Since 2014, Chinese courts have placed tens of millions of court judgments online. We analyze the promise and pitfalls of using this new data source, highlighting takeaways for readers facing similar issues using other collections of legal texts. Drawing on 1,058,986 documents from Henan Province, we identify problems with missing data and call on scholars to treat variation in court disclosure rates as an urgent research question. We also outline strategies for learning from a corpus that is vast and incomplete. Using a topic model of administrative litigation in Henan, we complicate conventional wisdom that administrative lawsuits are an extension of contentious politics that give Chinese citizens an opportunity to challenge the state. Instead, we find a high prevalence of administrative cases that reflect an underlying dispute between two private parties, suggesting that administrative lawsuits are often an attempt to enlist help from the state in resolving an underlying civil dispute.
中国法院判决的大规模数字化
自2014年以来,中国法院在网上发布了数千万份法院判决书。我们分析了使用这个新数据源的希望和陷阱,为使用其他法律文本集合面临类似问题的读者突出了要点。通过对河南省1,058,986份文件的分析,我们发现了数据缺失的问题,并呼吁学者将法院信息披露率的差异作为一个紧迫的研究问题。我们还概述了从庞大而不完整的语料库中学习的策略。利用河南行政诉讼的主题模型,我们将传统观点复杂化,即行政诉讼是有争议的政治的延伸,为中国公民提供了挑战国家的机会。相反,我们发现反映两个私人当事方之间潜在纠纷的行政案件非常普遍,这表明行政诉讼往往是在解决潜在民事纠纷时寻求国家帮助的一种尝试。
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