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The IUROPA Project

IUROPA is an international research collaboration building a comprehensive and easily accessible database on the Court of Justice of the European Union.

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IUROPA (ius + Europe) is a multidisciplinary platform for empirical legal studies of the European Union (EU). It brings together a network of scholars with backgrounds in law and political science who share an interest in research on law and politics related to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU).

A key feature of IUROPA is the development of a comprehensive, reliable, updated and easily accessible database with detailed information on cases, judgements, and actors involved in the judicial processes of the CJEU: The IUROPA CJEU Database.

The database currently includes five components, with main data tables on cases, judges, parties, positions, and more, and supplemental tables with additional information useful for researchers. The information has been collected from public sources (EUR-Lex, InfoCuria, and the CJEU Registry), cross-validated, and corrected when necessary. The CJEU Database Platform is at the core of the database and is automatically updated on a daily basis. Some components include information derived from manual coding and include reliability reports.

For questions and feedback on IUROPA and the CJEU Database please contact Daniel Naurin or Joshua Fjelstul.

Funding

The IUROPA Project has been financed primarily by the Swedish Research Council (2018-04215), with support also from the Norwegian Research Council (223274, PluriCourts), and the European University Institute Research Council (2018-2020).

The Team

The founders and project coordinators of the IUROPA project are Daniel Naurin (PI), Johan Lindholm, Urška Šadl and Anna Wallerman Ghavanini.

The acting project manager for the IUROPA CJEU Database Platform and website is Joshua Fjelstul.

Project managers and contributors to the different components are Stein Arne Brekke (Database Platform and National Courts), Silje Synnøve Lyder Hermansen (Database Platform), Olof Larsson (Issues and Positions), Michal Ovádek (Text Corpus), Tommaso Pavone (National Courts), and Philipp Schroeder (Issues and Positions).

Other contributors over the years include Louisa Boulaziz, Sivaram Cheruvu, Mattias Derlén, Even Espelid, Andreas Hofmann, Eun Hye Kim, Lucía López Zurita, Mauricio Mandujano Manriquez, Andreas Moberg, and Øyvind Stiansen.

IUROPA has benefited from excellent research assistance from Johan Arnborg, Sebastian Björnberg, Aaron Coster, Sarah Kaddar, Moa Näsström, Isak Nilsson, Alexandra Nouvel, and Irene Otero.