eprintid: 50539 rev_number: 13 eprint_status: archive userid: 1237 dir: disk0/00/05/05/39 datestamp: 2025-02-18 08:32:19 lastmod: 2025-02-18 09:48:27 status_changed: 2025-02-18 08:32:19 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Bétaille, Julien creators_idrefppn: 15890432X creators_halaffid: 480303 title: From Doctrine to Data: Towards an Empirical Turn in European Legal Scholarship? ispublished: pub subjects: subjects_DROIT11 subjects: subjects_DROIT12 abstract: Empirical Legal Research (ELR) can be defined as the systematic collec-tion and analysis of data on legal phenomenon, in a way that is verifia-ble, reproducible and falsifiable. Europe is a good case to study the de-velopment of ELR, notably given the long tradition of unity in legal scholarship. Of course, this tradition is that of doctrinal scholarship but, at the turn of the 20th century, it was partially challenged by the emer-gence of new social sciences. Nowadays, ELR implicitly challenges the division of labour that resulted from this period, by using social science methods to grasp legal objects. It thus challenges normativist dogma and goes beyond legal realism. If there were any doubt about that, ELR can be considered “legal” research, notably because, at least in some cases, its object is purely legal. However, this does not mean that ELR answers the same questions as doctrinal approaches. Although ELR seems to be developing in Europe, some countries are lagging behind, for example France where interest in ELR has only been growing in re-cent years. At the European level, signs of growth are more tangible. This raises questions regarding the structuring of this field of research. This special issue aims to answer them. date: 2025-03-01 date_type: published publisher: Juridiska institutionen id_number: 10.62355/ejels.25120 faculty: droit divisions: IEJUC keywords: European Legal Scholarship keywords: Empirical Legal Research french_keywords: Doctrine juridique européenne french_keywords: Recherche juridique empirique language: en has_fulltext: TRUE view_date_year: 2025 full_text_status: restricted publication: European Journal of Empirical Legal Studies volume: vol.2 number: n°1 place_of_pub: Umeå pagerange: 1-13 refereed: TRUE issn: 2004-8556 harvester_local_overwrite: eprintid harvester_local_overwrite: userid harvester_local_overwrite: faculty harvester_local_overwrite: dir harvester_local_overwrite: site harvester_local_overwrite: type harvester_local_overwrite: number harvester_local_overwrite: date harvester_local_overwrite: keywords harvester_local_overwrite: pagerange harvester_local_overwrite: date_type harvester_local_overwrite: publish_to_hal harvester_local_overwrite: creators_name harvester_local_overwrite: language harvester_local_overwrite: volume harvester_local_overwrite: french_keywords harvester_local_overwrite: refereed harvester_local_overwrite: divisions harvester_local_overwrite: abstract harvester_local_overwrite: title harvester_local_overwrite: publication harvester_local_overwrite: subjects harvester_local_overwrite: pending harvester_local_overwrite: note harvester_local_overwrite: issn harvester_local_overwrite: creators_idrefppn harvester_local_overwrite: creators_halaffid harvester_local_overwrite: publisher harvester_local_overwrite: place_of_pub harvester_local_overwrite: ispublished harvester_local_overwrite: id_number harvester_local_overwrite: hal_id harvester_local_overwrite: hal_version harvester_local_overwrite: hal_url harvester_local_overwrite: hal_passwd site: ut1 publish_to_hal: TRUE hal_id: hal-04953838 hal_passwd: o8l805 hal_version: 1 hal_url: https://hal.science/hal-04953838 citation: Bétaille, Julien (2025) From Doctrine to Data: Towards an Empirical Turn in European Legal Scholarship? European Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, vol.2 (n°1). pp. 1-13. document_url: https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/50539/1/B%C3%A9taille_%2050539.pdf