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Jurimetrics is the application of quantitative methods, and often especially statistics, to law.
The subject has gained considerable currency in both the United States and Brazil. In the United States, the journal Jurimetrics is published by the American Bar Association and Arizona State University. In Brazil, the field is the focus of a dedicated scholarly organization, the Brazilian Jurimetrics Association, which describes itself as "a nonprofit organization gathering researchers in Law and Mathematics."
The term was coined in 1949 by Lee Loevinger in his article "Jurimetrics: The Next Step Forward". Showing the influence of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Loevinger quoted Holmes' celebrated phrase that "the man of the future is the man of statistics and the master of economics.". The first work on this topic is attributed to Nicolaus I Bernoulli in his doctoral dissertation De Usu Artis Conjectandi in Jure, written in 1709.
The possibilities for applying jurimetrics are diverse, from analyses of the frequency of proceedings to the development of models to support decisionmaking. Jurimetrics can be considered from different perspectives depending on one's focus.
Jurimetrics, The Journal of Law, Science, and Technology (ISSN 0897-1277), published quarterly, is the official journal of the American Bar Association Section of Science & Technology Law and the Center for Law, Science & Innovation at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law. It is the oldest journal dedicated to the topics of law and science.