The NOVA Knowledge Centre for Data-Driven Law (DDL Centre) promotes the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal number 16, dedicated to Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions (SDG16), through the involvement of lawyers in multidisciplinary research teams aimed at collecting and analyzing data, relying on the collaboration of colleagues with training in data analytics, economic and social sciences, among others.

DDL Centre aims to:
– A better and more accurate diagnosis of law reform needs;
– Redesign and adjust existing legal instruments;
– Measure the impact of public policy decisions.

More broadly, DDL Centre supports, produces and stimulates the search for data-driven responses to the most pressing societal challenges of the 21st Century.

To this end, DDL Centre:
– Organizes seminars, conferences and offers dedicated training aimed at spreading data-driven research in the NOVA School of Law research community;
– Establishes collaboration outside the NOVA School of Law, inside but also outside Universidade NOVA de Lisboa;
– Seeks public and private funding to support, produce and stimulate data-driven legal research.

DDL Centre is also dedicated to the study of an area of knowledge in great expansion: the growing offer of data analytics services applied to the assistance of the legal professions and, in particular, judicial decisions.