Connecting the dots: visualizing international law

Data visualization may be defined as ''the implementation of more contemporary visualization techniques to illustrate the relationships within data. In researching US law, including US practice in international law, the ability to locate cases, statutes, and journal articles with high relevance to particular issues came into being with the advent of Lexis-Nexis and, shortly thereafter, Westlaw. However, to this day these particular services do not provide graphics within texts. Yet the Internet provides a rich visual experience for data of increasing complexity in all disciplines that can be called forth on many devices by voice commands. Three projects illustrating visualization of data in international law are presented. They are: 1. Mapping the Law: Building and Using Visual Mind Maps for International Law, 2. Country Data on the Rule of Law: The World Justice Project Rule of Law Index, and 3. Global Health and Human Rights Law Database: A Case Law Database Project of the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law.