Elliott Ash
Associate Professor Of Law, Economics, And Data Science
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolElliott Ash is an Associate Professor at ETH Zurich who applies AI, econometrics, and legal training to study law and political economy, combining a Ph.D. in economics and a J.D. from Columbia with an LL.M. in international criminal law. He leads human-AI alignment research in the Swiss AI Initiative, serves as an Associate Editor at the Economic Journal, and holds an ERC Starting Grant, reflecting a blend of rigorous scholarship and policy-facing impact. His background includes appointments at Princeton and Warwick and active involvement in open legal-data tooling—contributing backend work to the widely used CourtListener archive—demonstrating hands-on data engineering alongside theoretical work. Known for bridging disciplines, he builds reproducible pipelines that translate legal texts into empirical evidence for political and economic questions.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Economics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Economics at Columbia University in the City of New YorkLLM, International Criminal Law, LLM, International Criminal Law at University of AmsterdamBA, Plan II Honors, Economics, Government, and Philosophy, BA, Plan II Honors, Economics, Government, and Philosophy at The University of Texas at AustinJuris Doctor, Juris Doctor at Columbia University School of LawElkins High School
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Github Skills (10)
rt10
data-import10
import-data10
data-export10
exports10
python10
data-processing10
government-data9
django9
legaltech8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
freelawproject/courtlistener
Mar 2016 - Sep 2016
A fully-searchable and accessible archive of court data including growing repositories of opinions, oral arguments, judges, judicial financial records, and federal filings.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:42 commits, 106 pushes, 50 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Elliott primarily contributed to the `freelawproject/courtlistener` repository by modifying Python code related to importing and processing court data, specifically focusing on federal judge information. Their work involved updating data models and import scripts for judicial data, including the population of judge details and the parsing of dates. Additionally, the user added functionality to the Columbia corpus importer, including new-cases-only and date checking, showcasing their involvement in maintaining and improving data ingestion processes.
filingsopinionsgovernmentrepositoriesrecords
elliottash/robot_judge_2020
Aug 2020 - Aug 2021
Slides and code examples for Autumn 2020 Course at ETH Zurich, "Building a Robot Judge: Data Science for Decision-Making."
Contributions:8 commits, 40 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
decision-makingpythonscienceeth-zurichdata-science
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