Empirical Legal Data Scientist

Commonwealth of VA Careers; Charlottesville (VA); Hybrid; USD 65.000 - 90.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

The University of Virginia School of Law seeks an Empirical Legal Data Specialist to support the Legal Data Lab within the Arthur J. Morris Law Library.

The role focuses on empirical legal studies and AI-driven projects, collaborating with Law School faculty, administrators, and students. The ideal candidate has substantial coursework in data science, statistics, or quantitative/computational social science, plus strong problem-solving and communication abilities to convey findings to technical

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor’s degree in data science, statistics, quantitative/computational social science or a related field is required.
• Two or more years of relevant experience independently conducting quantitative or computational social science research and using high-performance computing (HPC) environments.

Aufgaben

• Collect, clean, integrate, and synthesize data from a variety of sources and present results in a visually compelling manner.
• Support data quality, documentation, validation, and research reproducibility.
• Regularly review relevant social scientific literature and stay abreast of emerging social scientific, computational, and statistical research methods relevant to empirical legal studies.
• Attend and/or present at one or two conferences per year.
• Explore, evaluate, adapt, and implement appropriate computational and statistical methods in response to project-specific research needs.
• Develop, maintain, and update internal and public-facing research databases and data resources.
• Maintain and contribute to the development of the Legal Data Lab website and other public-facing research infrastructure.
• Other duties as assigned.

Kenntnisse

Data science coursework

Statistics coursework

Quantitative/computational social-sc

Strong communication skills

Problem-solving

Programming languages

Ausbildung

Bachelor’s degree in data science, statistics, quantitative/computational social science or a related field

Master’s degree in data science, statistics, quantitative/computational social science or a related field (preferred)

Tools

Python

R

Stata

Jobbeschreibung

The University of Virginia School of Law seeks an Empirical Legal Data Specialist to support the Legal Data Lab within the Arthur J. Morris Law Library.

The role focuses on empirical legal studies and AI-driven projects, collaborating with Law School faculty, administrators, and students. The ideal candidate has substantial coursework in data science, statistics, or quantitative/computational social science, plus strong problem-solving and communication abilities to convey findings to technical