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Posted on Thu, 30. March 2023Wed, 5. April 2023

Empirical legal research to test judicial decisions

DOI 10.25527/re.2023.04
In making legal judgements, Dutch courts regularly use so-called 'societal views'. For example, within criminal law 'socio-ethical acceptability' is used as a measure of whether sexual contact between minors is a crime or not. Within private law 'what is socially acceptable' is used as a criterion in tort law, and at the intersection of liability law and corporate law, societal views play a role in the question of whether a natural person's conduct can be imputed to the legal entity. However, although judges rely on views in society when making certain judgments, they rarely mention how or where they found those societal views, nor whether and how they investigated what...
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Lydia Dalhuisen, PhD
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Academic Posts
Posted on Mon, 27. March 2023Thu, 30. March 2023

Empirical Legal Research: a state of knowledge across Europe International Conference at the University of Toulouse (9+10 June 2023)

DOI 10.25527/re.2023.03
by Prof. Dr. Dr. Hanjo Hamann
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Posted on Sat, 25. March 2023Mon, 27. March 2023

A bridge over clashing waters? Empirical legal studies bridging structural and poststructural feminist standpoints in research

DOI 10.25527/re.2023.02
by Sofie Karlsson, M.A.
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Posted on Mon, 25. July 2022Tue, 4. April 2023

Scopus/Scimago: Useless for Studying Legal Research! An Empirical Assessment of Misclassification Rates in a Popular Scientometric Data Source

DOI 10.25527/re.2022.02
by Prof. Dr. Dr. Hanjo Hamann and Lill Emmelheinz
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Posted on Wed, 5. January 2022Tue, 4. April 2023

Court Decisions: 99 % Uncharted Deep Sea? Mapping the Blind Spot of Digital Legal Studies over Half a Century (1971-2019)

DOI 10.25527/re.2022.01
by Prof. Dr. Dr. Hanjo Hamann
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Posted on Tue, 5. October 2021

Legal Network Analytics 101

DOI 10.25527/re.2021.11
by Seán Fobbe
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Posted on Thu, 29. July 2021Thu, 29. July 2021

Empirical Tax Research in Germany Federal Government Plans to Establish New Institute (IfeS)

DOI 10.25527/re.2021.09
by Prof. Dr. Dr. Hanjo Hamann and Dr. Julia Kraft
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