ACADEMIA Letters Jurimetrics: An Introduction Rashesh Vaidya, Tribhuvan University I. Introduction Jurimetrics was frst coined by Lee Loevinger [1] in 1949 and introduced in the legal vocab- ulary in the late ffties. The term was used by academicians during the 1960s to see the law strictly through an empirical approach. At the same time, the use of computers in law practice began to revolutionize the areas of legal research, evidence analysis, and data management of the legal system. The main aim of jurimetrics is to conduct the measurement of the judicial decisions, work, or judge’s behavior. The concept has emerged from the realistic movement which does not give priority to laws enacted by the legislative bodies but on the judge’s under- standing of the law, society, and their psychology. It is also focused on reducing human error by applying computer technology and symbolic logic in judicial reasoning as well as, fore- casting the expected legal outcomes. Jurimetrics is concerned with quantitative analysis of judicial behavior, application of communication and information theory to legal expression, use of mathematical logic in law, retrieval of legal data by electronic and mechanical means, and formulation of the calculus of legal predictability. [2] Nunes [3] viewed jurimetrics as a form of empirical research that relies on a statistical approach to investigate the law. The distinction between jurisprudence and jurimetrics is that jurisprudence is concerned with the function of law and the analysis of general juristic concepts whereas jurimetrics is concerned with the quantitative analysis of judicial behavior, the application of information theory to legal expression, and the retrieval of legal data by electronic and mechanical means. [4] A jurimetrics analysis starts with an extract raw data from courts and organize that data in a way that can be processed. Most of the raw data is unstructured and written in natural Academia Letters, July 2021 Corresponding Author: Rashesh Vaidya, rashesh_vaidya@hotmail.com Citation: Vaidya, R. (2021). Jurimetrics: An Introduction. Academia Letters, Article 1920. https://doi.org/10.20935/AL1920. 1 ©2021 by the author — Open Access — Distributed under CC BY 4.0