Program in Islamic Law Digital Workshop: TRACE: A TOOL FOR MAPPING HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY ISLAMIC LAWS

Sharon Tai , Deputy Editor, Program in Islamic Law (PIL), Harvard Law School

Sharon Tai will discuss and demonstrate a new digital tool available to researchers of historical and contemporary Islamic law on SHARIAsource. The tool, built by affiliates and graduates of Harvard’s Program in Islamic Law and the MIT Media Lab, uses textual analysis to assess patterns of sentiment or bias within textual corpora. RSVP to shariasource@law.harvard.edu.