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In this session Professor Arevik Avedian and HLS student Felicia Caten-Raines (JD ’25) from the HLS Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program will walk through various steps of empirical analysis, including data quality check and cleaning, best practices of creating and sharing replication data and code, and data analysis and visualization – all grounded in the incredibly impactful report they co-authored with researchers from HLS, HMS, and Physicians for Human Rights entitled “Endless Nightmare”: Torture and Inhuman Treatment in Solitary Confinement in U.S. Immigration Detention.

Join this session demonstrating AI tools currently available to law students for research, those currently used in law practice (not yet accessible to law schools) compared to the latest commercial LLMs, and a discussion of the limits, likely changes, and implications of AI tools for the future of legal research.