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Beyond Leaders and Laggards: Member State Compliance with European Union Environmental Law
Tanja Börzel, Andreas HofmannHandbook on European Union Environmental Policy2026genderjudicial politics
Beyond the Glass Ceiling, More 'Housework'? Women's Work Assignment, Performance and Influence in Political Institutions
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Building Multi-User Databases for Empirical Legal Studies of European Union Law
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Crisis Jurisprudence: The Legal Interpretation of European Citizenship during the Financial Crisis and Brexit
Eftychia ConstantinouEuropean University Institute2026Read CJEUlitigationEU law
EU Law Litigation: Who Litigates, Who Influences Judges, What Downstream Effects?
Silje Synnøve Lyder Hermansen, Tommaso PavoneEmpirical Legal Studies of EU Law2026Read CJEUjudicial politicslegal doctrine
How Much Influence Do Opinion-Writers Have on Per Curiam Courts? Uncovering Author Drift in Written Decisions at the European Court of Justice
Sivaram Cheruvu, Jeffrey ZieglerJournal of Law and Courts2026litigationEU lawEuropean integration
Legal Mobilisation in EU Foreign Policy - a Framework for Going beyond Case Studies
Andreas HofmannInternational Spectator2026CJEUjudicial politicsquantitative
Shaping the Bench: The Effect of Ideology and Influence on Judicial Reappointments
Silje Synnøve Lyder Hermansen, Daniel NaurinThe Journal of Politics2026Read CJEUpreliminary rulingsjudicial deference
The Questions That Never Came: How National Judges Use Their Discretion in the Preliminary Ruling Procedure
Isak NilssonEuropean Journal of Empirical Legal Studies2026Read EU lawEuropean Commissioninstitutional reform
What Happened to Centralised Enforcement?
Andreas HofmannEmpirical Legal Studies in EU Law2026CJEUjudicial biasquantitative
Are European Court of Justice Judges Biased towards Their Member States?
Sivaram CheruvuEuropean Union Politics2025Read CJEUlitigationEuropean integration
Authority Transfer and Governmental Legal Contestation before the Court of Justice of the EU
Henning Deters, Jonas BornemannEuropean Political Science Review2025Read CJEUlegal doctrine
Complexity on Trial: The Role of Legal Complexity in the CJEU
Stein Arne BrekkeWorking Paper2025CJEUEU lawlegal doctrine
Die Soziale Dimension Des Unionsrechts in Der Rechtsprechung Des EuGH - Bedeutung Und Wege Zur Stärkung
Olaf Deinert, Andreas Hofmann, Esra Özen, Philipp ThielHSI2025CJEUEuropean Commissionrule of lawjudicial politics
Follow the Leader: The European Commission, the European Court of Justice, and the EU's Rule of Law Revolution
Mauricio Mandujano Manriquez, Tommaso PavoneJournal of European Public Policy2025Read CJEUjudicial biasEU law
How 'Labour Friendly' Is the Court of Justice of the European Union?
Andreas HofmannWorking Paper2025CJEUjudicial politicsjudicial biasquantitative
Ideology and Agenda Setting on the Court of Justice of European Union: Evidence from Anti-Trust and State Aid Cases
Silje Synnøve Lyder Hermansen, Erik VoetenAPSA Preprints2025Read CJEUlitigationjudicial politicsquantitative
Leveling and Spotlighting: How the European Court of Justice Favors the Weak to Promote Its Legitimacy
Silje Synnøve Lyder Hermansen, Tommaso Pavone, Louisa BoulazizBritish Journal of Political Science2025Read CJEUlitigationlegal doctrine
Negative References to Amicus Briefs in Judicial Reasoning
Johan Lindholm, Daniel Naurin, Philipp SchroederJournal of Law and Courts2025Read CJEUEU lawquantitativelegal doctrine
Substantive Modernization in EU Competition Law: An Empirical Comparison
Eun Hye KimJournal of Competition Law & Economics2025Read CJEUprecedentnetwork analysis
Symbolic vs. Structural Precedent after Lisbon: Co-Citation Networks Analysis of CJEU Case Law (2008-2015)
Sara Geremia, Alessio SardoWorking Paper2025Read CJEUjudicial politicsinstitutional reform
The Apex Court's Dilemma: Rulemaking Alignment Under Hierarchical and Political Constraints
Mauricio Mandujano ManriquezWorking Paper2025Read CJEUEuropean integrationjudicial politics
The European Court of Justice and Legal European Integration
Thomas König, Stefan EschenweckerEuropean Union Politics2025Read CJEUlegal doctrinequantitative
The European Court of Justice Dataset: Legal Issues and Doctrine
Urška Šadl, Stein Arne Brekke, Lucía López Zurita, Eun Hye KimJournal of Law & Empirical Analysis2025Read CJEUquantitative
A Note of Caution on CJEU Databases
Michal OvádekEuropean Law Open2024Read CJEUjudicial deferencepreliminary rulings
A Spoonful of Sugar: Deference at the Court of Justice
Lucía López Zurita, Stein Arne BrekkeJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies2024Read CJEUjudicial biasjudicial politicsquantitative
Are Judges on Per Curiam Courts Ideological? Evidence from the European Court of Justice
Sivaram CheruvuJournal of Law and Courts2024Read CJEUpreliminary rulingsEU law
Fundamental Rights Complaints in the Preliminary Reference Procedure
Lucía López ZuritaRedressing Fundamental Rights Violations by the EU: The Promise of the 'Complete System of Remedies'2024Read CJEUprecedentjudicial deferenceEU law
National Constitutional Courts' Use of the ECJ's Precedents: The Case Study of Czechia
Marek Pivoda, Štěpán Paulík, Sebastian KřepelaMaastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law2024Read CJEUjudicial deferencepreliminary rulingsquantitative
Seizing Opportunities: The Determinants of the CJEU's Deference to National Courts
Philipp SchroederJournal of European Public Policy2024Read CJEUjudicial politics
Speaking Law, Whispering Politics. Mechanisms of Resilience in the Court of Justice of the European Union
Stein Arne BrekkeEuropean University Institute2024Read CJEUjudicial politicslegal doctrinequantitative
The European Court of Justice, an Able and Unwilling Lawmaker: Evidence from 920 Free Movement of Persons Judgments
Urška Šadl, Silje HermansenRevisiting Judicial Politics in the European Union2024Read CJEUprecedentquantitative
Theorizing and Measuring the Precedential Value of Case Law: Lessons from the European Union
Joshua Fjelstul, Johan Lindholm, Daniel Naurin, Michal OvadekWorking Paper2024EU lawquantitative
Where Law Meets Data: A Practical Guide to Expert Coding in Legal Research
Michal Ovádek, Philipp Schroeder, Jan ZglinskiEuropean Law Open2024Read CJEUlegal doctrinequantitative
From One to Many: Identifying Issues in CJEU Jurisprudence
Philipp Schroeder, Johan LindholmJournal of Law and Courts2023Read CJEUjudicial efficiencyinstitutional reform
That's an Order! How the Quest for Efficiency Is Transforming Judicial Cooperation in Europe
Stein Arne Brekke, Daniel Naurin, Urška Šadl, Lucía López-ZuritaJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies2023Read CJEUquantitative
The CJEU Database Platform: Decisions and Decision-Makers
Stein Arne Brekke, Joshua C Fjelstul, Silje Synnøve Lyder Hermansen, Daniel NaurinJournal of Law and Courts2023Read CJEUjudicial efficiencyinstitutional reformcomputational methods
The Timely Administration of Justice: Using Computational Simulations to Evaluate Institutional Reforms at the CJEU
Joshua C. Fjelstul, Matthew Gabel, Clifford J. CarrubbaJournal of European Public Policy2023Read CJEUinstitutional reformjudicial efficiency
Law and Orders: The Orders of the European Court of Justice as a Window in the Judicial Process and Institutional Transformations
Urška Šadl, Lucía López Zurita, Stein Arne Brekke, Daniel NaurinEuropean Law Open2022Read