Publications

11 … Is Every Law for Everyone? Assessing Access to National Legislation through Official Legal Databases around the World
43 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 298–321 (2023), jointly with Andreas Pacher … DOI: 10.1093/ojls/gqac032

10 … Sharing the Recipe. Reproducibility and Replicability in Research Across Disciplines
8 Research Ideas and Outcomes 1–20 (e89980/2022), jointly with Rima-Maria Rahal, Hilmar Brohmer, Florian Pethig … DOI: 10.3897/rio.8.e89980

9 … Scopus/Scimago: Useless for Studying Legal Research!. An Empirical Assessment of Misclassification Rates in a Popular Scientometric Data Source
Rechts|Empirie. Legal Empirics in Europe (2022/7/25), jointly with Lill Emmelheinz … DOI: 10.25527/re.2022.02

8 … K Is for Contract―Why Is It, Though? A K’s Study on the Origins, Persistence and Propagation of Legal Konventions
106 Minnesota Law Review (Headnotes) 362–390 (2022)

7 … On getting it right by being wrong. A case study of how flawed research may become self-fulfilling at last
119 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1–4 (e2122274119/2022) … DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2122274119

6 … Court Decisions: 99 % Uncharted Deep Sea? Mapping the Blind Spot of Digital Legal Studies over Half a Century (1971-2019)
Rechts|Empirie. Legal Empirics in Europe (2022/1/5) … DOI: 10.25527/re.2022.01

5 … Group Identity in Intermediated Interactions. Lessons from a Trust Game with Delegation in South Africa
in Experimental Economics and Culture 227–264 (Gunnthorsdottir/Norton ed., 2018), jointly with Nicky Nicholls … DOI: 10.1108/S0193-230620180000020008

4 … Open Access in German Legal Academia. Challenges and Perspectives
Blog Droit Européen (2017/10/25)

3 … The Hog Cycle of Law Professors. An Econometric Time Series Analysis of the Entry-level Job Market in Legal Academia
11 PLoS ONE 1–22 (e0159815 & e0168041/2016), jointly with Christoph Engel … DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0159815

2 … “Begin at the beginning”. Lawyers and Linguists Together in Wonderland
3 The Winnower 1–9 (4919/2016), jointly with Friedemann Vogel / Dieter Stein / Andreas Abegg / Łucja Biel / Lawrence M. Solan … DOI: 10.15200/winn.148184.43176 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 by the international research group “Computer Assisted Legal Linguistics” (CAL²) under the auspices of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences. About forty scholars from Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Poland, Spain and the US brought together their different intellectual and disciplinary perspectives on computational linguistics and legal thinking. Concluding the conference, four legal linguistics experts – two native linguists, two native lawyers – discussed the perspectives and limitations of computer-assisted legal linguistics. Their debate, which this article faithfully reproduces, touches on some of the essential epistemological issues of interdisciplinary research and evidence-based policy, and marks the way forward for legal corpus linguistics.

1 … Bovigus. Revisiting a Legal Discovery
52 Journal of Irreproducible Results 29–31 (4/2014) … ISSN: 0022-2038