Stack Exchange — law.stackexchange.com
The content of law.stackexchange.com (https://law.stackexchange.com/), a Stack Exchange question-and-answer site, as published in the Stack Exchange Data Dump of April 2024 on the Internet Archive. The posts table holds 232,567 rows: 73,344 posts (29,117 questions, 43,252 answers, 481 tag wiki excerpts, 481 tag wikis, 10 posts of type 6 and 3 posts of type 7) and 159,223 comments, written between 26 May 2015 and 31 March 2024. Beside it are 43,909 user accounts, 357,731 votes, 86,358 badges awarded, 1,104 tags, 218,851 post revisions and 5,101 links between posts. Every answer keeps the question it answers and every comment the post it was written on, so the threads can be rebuilt. The Internet Archive item describes the dump as anonymised; the votes table names the voter in only 511 rows.
Cite this dataset at
stackexchange-law.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 232,567 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.
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Show all 14 topics
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Computed over the full corpus.
Record
- Catalog key
stackexchange-law-stackexchange-com- Authors
- Stack Exchange, Inc.
- Year
- 2024
- Source paper
- Stack Exchange Data Dump
- License
- CC BY-SA 3.0 / 4.0 (by contribution date) (CC-BY-SA-3.0 AND CC-BY-SA-4.0)
- Records
- 232,567
- Nodes
- 232,567
- Edges
- 202,475 (directed)
- Collected
- 2015/2024 (2010s, 2020s)
- Tasks
- From the graph: link prediction, community detection
- Region
- Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://archive.org/details/stackexchange link checked
- Original files as received
- The source files, unconverted, kept for reference: mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-09, 98.7 MB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json. For use, start with the data package below.
- Data package
- Version 1.0.0 of this dataset as an ECHO Data Package: posts (232,567 rows), users (43,909 rows), x_votes (357,731 rows), x_badges (86,358 rows), x_tags (1,104 rows), x_post_history (218,851 rows), x_post_links (5,101 rows).
- Structure
- Temporal (timestamped), Node attributes, Text, Threaded conversations
How to cite
BibTeX
@misc{echo2026,
title = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
year = {2026},
url = {https://echo.directory},
note = {Syracuse University}
}
@misc{stackexchange_2024,
title = {Stack Exchange Data Dump},
author = {{Stack Exchange, Inc.}},
year = {2024},
month = {apr},
publisher = {Internet Archive},
url = {https://archive.org/details/stackexchange}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Stack Exchange, Inc. (2024). Stack Exchange — law.stackexchange.com [Data set]. https://stackexchange-law.echo.directory/
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Stack Exchange, Inc. Stack Exchange — law.stackexchange.com. 2024, stackexchange-law.echo.directory/.