Empirical Legal Studies in EU Law

Daniel Naurin is Professor of Political Science at the University of Oslo and the University of Gothenburg. He has worked and published on a broad range of research topics, including judicial politics, lobbying, and transparency. Recent publications include 'The multi-level politics of countering democratic backsliding' (2025), Special Issue of the Journal of European Public Policy (co-edited with Michael Blauberger, Ulrich Sedelmeier and Natasha Wunch). Urška Šadl is Part-time Professor at the European University Institute and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen. Her research interests include the empirical study of European courts, judicial precedents, as well as European constitutional law more generally. She wrote Good Judgment: The European Court of Justice as a Context-Conscious Lawmaker (2024). Jan Zglinski is Associate Professor at the LSE Law School and Research Fellow of the Oxford Institute of European and Comparative Law. He has published widely on EU constitutional and internal market law, and is the author of Europe's Passive Virtues: Deference to National Authorities in EU Free Movement Law (2020).

• Introduction: empirical legal studies in EU law; Part I. Foundations: 1. What is the point of empirical legal research on EU law? Jan Zglinski; 2. Has political science discovered EU law? Daniel Naurin, Johan Lindholm and Philipp Schroeder; 3. Research method(s) in EU law: some critical reflections and an untold story Giulia Gentile; 4. The future of European legal scholarship Gareth Davies; 5. The globalisation of empirical legal studies (?) Lee Epstein; Part II. Data and Methods: 6. Varieties of data in EU legal scholarship: overcoming the doctrine of the sources of law Monika Glavina; 7. What can non judicial (legal) data tell about the politics of EU law? Päivi Leino-Sandberg; 8. Building multi-user databases for empirical legal studies of European Union law Daniel Naurin, Johan Lindholm, Urška Šadl and Anna Wallermann Ghavanini; 9. Concepts and measurement in empirical legal studies in EU law Eun Hye Kim and Philipp Schroeder; 10. Large language models Michal Ovádek; 11. Using qualitative data in EU legal research: writing about or with expert interviews? Emilia Korkea-aho; 12. Experimental pathways in EU law Juan A. Mayoral; Part III. Themes: 13. Judicial behaviour in the CJEU Sivaram Cheruvu; 14. Empirical legal studies and the reception of EU law by domestic courts: a critical examination Arthur Dyevre; 15. EU law litigation: who litigates, who influences judges, what downstream effects? Silje Hermansen and Tommaso Pavone; 16. What happened to centralised enforcement? Andreas Hofmann; 17. The policy impact of the court of justice of the European Union Lucia López Zurita and Dorte Sindjberg Martinsen; 18. systematic content analysis of EU internal market law and governance Or Brook; 19. Towards a computational turn in European migration law Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen and William Hamilton Byrne.