Publications
Selection of 14 academic writings, grouped by subject, sorted from newest to oldest.
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14 … Property, Psyche, and the Theory of Tenancy. Independent and Interdependent Lease Law Covenants Through the Lens of Cultural Psychology
9 Texas A&M Journal of Property Law 223262 (2023) … DOI: 10.37419/JPL.V9.I2.1
13 … Is Every Law for Everyone? Assessing Access to National Legislation through Official Legal Databases around the World
43 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 298321 (2023), jointly with Andreas Pacher … DOI: 10.1093/ojls/gqac032
12 … Sharing the Recipe. Reproducibility and Replicability in Research Across Disciplines
8 Research Ideas and Outcomes 120 (e89980/2022), jointly with Rima-Maria Rahal, Hilmar Brohmer, Florian Pethig … DOI: 10.3897/rio.8.e89980
11 … 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) 362390 (2022)
10 … 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 14 (e2122274119/2022) … DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2122274119
9 … The German Federal Courts Dataset 1950–2019. From Paper Archives to Linked Open Data
16 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 671688 (2019) … DOI: 10.1111/jels.12230
8 … Seven Years of Language & Law. Editors’ Progress Report on the Journal of the International Language & Law Association
8 International Journal of Language & Law 18 (2019), jointly with Friedemann Vogel … DOI: 10.14762/jll.2019.001
7 … Computer-Assisted Legal Linguistics. Corpus Analysis as a New Tool for Legal Studies
43 Law & Social Inquiry 13401363 (2018), jointly with Friedemann Vogel / Isabelle Gauer … DOI: 10.1111/lsi.12305
6 … Evidence-Based Jurisprudence meets Legal Linguistics. Unlikely Blends Made in Germany
43 Brigham Young University Law Review 14731501 (2018), jointly with Friedemann Vogel … ISSN: 0360-151X
German legal thinking is infamous for its hair-splittingly sophisticated dogmatism. Some of its other research contributions are frequently overlooked, both at home and abroad. Two such secondary streams recently coalesced into a new corpus-based research approach to legal practice: Empirical legal research (which had blossomed in Germany already by 1913) and research on language and law (following German pragmatist philosopher Wittgenstein 1922). The article introduces these research traditions in their current German incarnations (Evidence-Based Jurisprudence and Legal Linguistics) and shows how three common features – their proclaimed pragmatism, their skepticism towards legal authority and their big data strategy – inspired a new corpus-based research agenda: Computer Assisted Legal Linguistics (CAL²).
5 … The Fabric of Language and Law. Towards an International Research Network for Computer Assisted Legal Linguistics (CAL²)
6 International Journal of Language & Law 101109 (2017), jointly with Friedemann Vogel … DOI: 10.14762/jll.2017.101
4 … The Hog Cycle of Law Professors. An Econometric Time Series Analysis of the Entry-level Job Market in Legal Academia
11 PLoS ONE 122 (e0159815 & e0168041/2016), jointly with Christoph Engel … DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0159815
3 … “Begin at the beginning”. Lawyers and Linguists Together in Wonderland
3 The Winnower 19 (4919/2016), jointly with Friedemann Vogel / Dieter Stein / Andreas Abegg / Łucja Biel / Lawrence M. Solan … DOI: 10.15200/winn.148184.43176
2 … Cui Bono, Benefit Corporation? An Experiment Inspired by Social Enterprise Legislation in Germany and the US
11 Review of Law & Economics 79110 (2015), jointly with Sven Fischer / Sebastian J. Goerg … DOI: 10.1515/rle-2014-0036
1 … Unpacking the Board. A Comparative and Empirical Perspective on Groups in Corporate Decision-Making
11 Berkeley Business Law Journal 154 (2014) … DOI: 10.15779/Z38GC6H