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dc.contributor.authorSIEMS, Mathias
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-07T08:38:38Z
dc.date.available2023-03-07T08:38:38Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.identifier.citationLaw and social inquiry, 2023, Vol. 48, No. 3, pp. 881-905en
dc.identifier.issn0897-6546
dc.identifier.issn1747-4469
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/75388
dc.descriptionPublished online: 20 October 2022en
dc.description.abstractRecent years have seen a growing literature on citations between courts from different countries. What explains why such cross-citations occur between some courts but not others? This article addresses this question with original data on 2,967 citations between the private law supreme courts of the twenty-eight member states of the European Union. These cross-citations form a valued network of twenty-eight nodes, which can be analyzed with tools of network analysis. The article uses the method of a multiple regression quadratic assignment procedure in order to address the dependency of observations in a network. The explanatory variables distinguish between variables that proxy for legal similarities between countries and other factors, and, thus, this article contributes to the wider debate about the predominance of either legal or nonlegal factors in judicial decision-making. The main finding is that nonlegal factors play a decisive role, notably a common native language and overlapping language skills, while legal families are not found to be a significant determinant.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThis article was published Open Access with the support from the EUI Library through the CRUI - CUP Transformative Agreement (2020-2022)en
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen
dc.relation.ispartofLaw and social inquiryen
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.titleA network analysis of judicial cross-citations in Europeen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/lsi.2022.22
dc.identifier.volume48
dc.identifier.startpage881
dc.identifier.endpage905
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