Download and search HUDOC (https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng) documents to create case law overviews. © ECHR-CEDH for all documents downloaded with this tool.
For Windows and Linux, you can use the pre-built executables found under release v0.1. To run from source, install python 3.7+ and pip. Then, in the source directory, run "pip install -r requirements.txt". After the installation finishes, you can run the tool with "python hudoc_analysis.py".
Download documents from HUDOC filtered by timespan, doctype, language, respondent. You can also include links to Strasbourg Observer posts mentioning each downloaded document. For english judgments and decisions, the tool allows filtering out parties' submissions for a better overview (experimental). Document metadata and text is stored in an SQLite 3 file for each set and can be easily exchanged or used for analysis. Set merging is possible for better customization of datasets.
In a second step, you can define headers for topics you are interested in and keywords and regex queries for each header. The tool searches the documents in your set and structures matches by article and header. You can analyze the documents in the tool's own metadata view or export to .docx. To create meaningful overviews, you can approve or disapprove each document returned by your keyword/regex search, resulting in a list of hand picked documents you consider helpful in your research.
The tool is under active development. Feedback and bug reports are greatly appreciated, ideally on GitHub or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jan-nicklaus/). Thank you for trying HUDOC analysis!