A legal corpus and measurement of De Jure Freedom of Expression laws worldwide. The dataset includes data and a codebook outlining the methodology for collecting laws related to Expression, Defamation, and Mis-/Disinformation. It was authored by Emily Adams of the TCC Democracy Program Dataverse and last updated on May 5, 2026.
Use Cases
- Comparative legal analysis based on the global corpus of expression laws.
- Policy impact assessment based on the methodology for measuring De Jure Freedom of Expression.
- NLP analysis of legal texts based on the described corpus of defamation and misinformation laws.
Strengths
- Includes a codebook outlining the methodology for data collection.
- Covers a global scope of legal systems.
- Focuses on three specific legal domains: Expression, Defamation, and Mis-/Disinformation.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
- Source
- TCC Democracy Program Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Methodology and legal corpus collection described in the accompanying codebook.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-05 17:47:20; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Global