Much of empirical research on European integration relies on data published by European
Union (EU) institutions concerning the EU's laws and policies. However, despite wide …

The European Court of Justice is generally known to use its institutional role to advance
European integration. Scholars have disagreed, however, on the extent to which the Court …

TRADITIONAL legal research methods rely on reading and interpreting legal texts. Even
with an army of capable assistants, the amount of data that can be generated in this way is …

Over the last three decades, the field of EU judicial behaviour has spawned a sizeable body
of work. While the efforts of EU judicial scholars have indubitably generated important …

We exploit the nonhierarchical nature of the European Union legal system to investigate the
effect of negative feedback on intercourt cooperation. We argue that, in the context of a …

We apply network analysis and topic modeling techniques to explore the evolution of the
European Union's treaty making activity and the patterns of litigation they have given rise to …

In the last decades, the study of the legal implications of artificial intelligence (AI) has
increasingly attracted the attention of the scholarly community. The proliferation of articles on …

Viewed as crucial to the process of European integration, domestic judicial dynamics drew
the attention of empirical scholars early on. Participation in the preliminary ruling mechanism …

This chapter provides an overview of computational text analysis techniques used to study
judicial behavior and decision-making. As legal texts become increasingly digitized …

While socialisation has long been suggested as a possible mechanism to explain the effect
of bilateral trade on interstate relations, the vast literature addressing the role of trade in …