Building a Legal Citation Network: The Influence of the Court of Cassation on the Lower Judiciary
Empirical research into judicial behaviour and the legal system is bountiful in the United States, but few and far between in Europe. The next frontier is legal big data analysis. In this paper, I describe the methodological framework of my PhD research, in which I empirically investigate the influence of the Belgian Court of Cassation on the lower judiciary through a study of the citation of the Court of Cassation’s case law. Emphasis is placed on the theoretical foundation, research hypotheses and methodology. The normative significance of this research is considerable: the aim is to uncover... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2017 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Utrecht Law Review, Vol 13, Iss 3, Pp 65-76 (2017) |
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Utrecht University School of Law
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Schlagwörter: | Belgium / Court of Cassation / case law / legal citation network / judicial behaviour / Law in general. Comparative and uniform law. Jurisprudence / K1-7720 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28938211 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://doi.org/10.18352/ulr.406 |