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View article: Property, Psyche, and the Theory of Tenancy: Independent and Interdependent Lease Law Covenants Through the Lens of Cultural Psychology
Property, Psyche, and the Theory of Tenancy: Independent and Interdependent Lease Law Covenants Through the Lens of Cultural Psychology Open
Is it property or contract? This question has perplexed scholars studying the residential lease for most of the last century. The present contribution combines the complementary perspectives of legal history and cultural psychology to clar…
View article: Is Every Law for Everyone? Assessing Access to National Legislation through Official Legal Databases around the World
Is Every Law for Everyone? Assessing Access to National Legislation through Official Legal Databases around the World Open
Countries all over the world document their statutory law in official legal databases (OLD), but the extent to which these provide effective access to (statutory) law remains unexamined. Ideally, an OLD should be (i) provided online and fr…
View article: Sharing the Recipe: Reproducibility and Replicability in Research Across Disciplines
Sharing the Recipe: Reproducibility and Replicability in Research Across Disciplines Open
The open and transparent documentation of scientific processes has been established as a core antecedent of free knowledge. This also holds for generating robust insights in the scope of research projects. To convince academic peers and th…
View article: Metadata for Law Journals in the Scopus/Scimago Database as of 2022
Metadata for Law Journals in the Scopus/Scimago Database as of 2022 Open
This file documents the raw data and manual codings (as of July 2022) of 46 journals listed in the Scimago Journal & Country Rank for the search criteria "Subject category: Law", "Region/Country: Germany", and "Year: 2021". These data are …
View article: Metadata for Law Journals in the Scopus/Scimago Database as of 2022
Metadata for Law Journals in the Scopus/Scimago Database as of 2022 Open
This file documents the raw data and manual codings (as of July 2022) of 46 journals listed in the Scimago Journal & Country Rank for the search criteria "Subject category: Law", "Region/Country: Germany", and "Year: 2021". These data are …
View article: On getting it right by being wrong: A case study of how flawed research may become self-fulfilling at last
On getting it right by being wrong: A case study of how flawed research may become self-fulfilling at last Open
Significance Understanding how humans process time series data is more pressing now than ever amid a progressing pandemic. Current research draws on some fifty years of empirical evidence on laypeople’s (in-)ability to extrapolate exponent…
View article: K is for Contract―Why is it, Though?
K is for Contract―Why is it, Though? Open
Just like Supreme Court justices, law students in the United States almost unanimously abbreviate the word “contract” using the capital letter K. Despite this consensus, no writer has ever explained why a word that starts with “c” should b…
View article: The German Federal Courts Dataset 1950–2019: From Paper Archives to Linked Open Data
The German Federal Courts Dataset 1950–2019: From Paper Archives to Linked Open Data Open
Various reasons explain why Europe lags behind the United States in empirical legal studies. One of them is a scarcity of available data on judicial decision making, even at the highest levels of adjudication. By institutional design, civi…
View article: Seven Years of Language & Law: Editors’ Progress Report on the Journal of the International Language & Law Association
Seven Years of Language & Law: Editors’ Progress Report on the Journal of the International Language & Law Association Open
The International Journal of Language & Law (JLL) is entering its third triennium. After three years under the editorship of its founding editors from Germany and the US, and another three years under the editorship of the present authors,…
View article: Open Access in der Rechtswissenschaft
Open Access in der Rechtswissenschaft Open
The present special edition investigates which opportunities open access to scientific publications offers to legal studies and which challenges it poses. Scientific publishers play an important role with regard to this issue; their perspe…
View article: Evidence-Based Jurisprudence Meets Legal Linguistics—Unlikely Blends Made in Germany
Evidence-Based Jurisprudence Meets Legal Linguistics—Unlikely Blends Made in Germany Open
German legal thinking is renowned for its hair-splittingly sophisticated dogmatism. Yet, some of its other contributions to research are frequently overlooked, both at home and abroad. Two such secondary streams recently coalesced into a n…
View article: “Begin at the beginning”. Lawyers and Linguists Together in Wonderland
“Begin at the beginning”. Lawyers and Linguists Together in Wonderland Open
What do patterns in legal language tell us about power, policy and justice? This question was at the heart of a conference on “The Fabric of Language and Law: Discovering Patterns through Legal Corpus Linguistics”, convened in March 2016 b…
View article: The Fabric of Language and Law. Towards an International Research Network for Computer Assisted Legal Linguistics (CAL²)
The Fabric of Language and Law. Towards an International Research Network for Computer Assisted Legal Linguistics (CAL²) Open
Law and language can be described as complex institutions with emergent properties, like intricate fabrics woven from single-colored fibers. This metaphor suggests to think of legal language in terms of “patterns”: Recurrent motifs in the …
View article: Computer-Assisted Legal Linguistics: Corpus Analysis as a New Tool for Legal Studies
Computer-Assisted Legal Linguistics: Corpus Analysis as a New Tool for Legal Studies Open
Law exists solely in and through language. Nonetheless, systematical empirical analysis of legal language has been rare. Yet, the tides are turning: After judges at various courts (including the US Supreme Court) have championed a method o…
View article: “Begin at the beginning”: Lawyers and Linguists Together in Wonderland
“Begin at the beginning”: Lawyers and Linguists Together in Wonderland Open
What do patterns in legal language tell us about power, policy and justice? This question was at the heart of a conference on “The Fabric of Language and Law: Discovering Patterns through Legal Corpus Linguistics”, convened in March 2016 b…
View article: The Hog Cycle of Law Professors: An Econometric Time Series Analysis of the Entry-Level Job Market in Legal Academia
The Hog Cycle of Law Professors: An Econometric Time Series Analysis of the Entry-Level Job Market in Legal Academia Open
The (German) market for law professors fulfils the conditions for a hog cycle: In the short run, supply cannot be extended or limited; future law professors must be hired soon after they first present themselves, or leave the market; deman…
View article: Zeitgeistreiches
Zeitgeistreiches Open
Timely Witticisms. The Jurists Journal in Jest and in Earnest: Selected Satires From Sixty Years