A note of caution on CJEU databases

2024/06/01 by Michal Ovádek · 1 voice · 3 citations
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Computer science #Database #European Criminal Justice and Data Protection #Information retrieval #Legal Language and Interpretation #linguistics and terminology studies

paper · pdf · doi:10.1017/elo.2024.17

published in European Law Open 3(2), 353-359 (Cambridge University Press)

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Abstract

Abstract The purpose of this short research note is to draw attention to two major pitfalls of working with databases of decisions of the Court of Justice of the European Union. The first one is technical in nature and relates to the discrepant coverage of the Curia and Eur-Lex databases. The second one is linguistic in nature and relates to the fact that most scholars using these databases work in English. New work on this front is capable of addressing the first issue but a change to research practices would be required to address the second.

Discussions

• if you work on or with European Union law, here is a bit of hot-off-the-digital-press, open-access research. I look at the gaps between Curia and Eur-Lex to understand how much of a problem using only [bsky, 33 points, 3 comments]

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