Introduction: empirical legal studies in EU law; Part I. Foundations: 1. What is the point of empirical legal research on EU law? Jan Zglinski; 2. Has political science discovered EU law? Daniel Naurin, Johan Lindholm and Philipp Schroeder; 3. Research method(s) in EU law: some critical reflections and an untold story Giulia Gentile; 4. The future of European legal scholarship Gareth Davies; 5. The globalisation of empirical legal studies (?) Lee Epstein; Part II. Data and Methods: 6.

Varieties of data in EU legal scholarship: overcoming the doctrine of the sources of law Monika Glavina; 7. What can non judicial (legal) data tell about the politics of EU law? Päivi Leino-Sandberg; 8. Building multi-user databases for empirical legal studies of European Union law Daniel Naurin, Johan Lindholm, Urska Sadl and Anna Wallermann Ghavanini; 9. Concepts and measurement in empirical legal studies in EU law Eun Hye Kim and Philipp Schroeder; 10. Large language models Michal Ovádek; 11. Using qualitative data in EU legal research: writing about or with expert interviews? Emilia Korkea-aho; 12. Experimental pathways in EU law Juan A. Mayoral; Part III.

Themes: 13. Judicial behaviour in the CJEU Sivaram Cheruvu; 14. Empirical legal studies and the reception of EU law by domestic courts: a critical examination Arthur Dyevre; 15. EU law litigation: who litigates, who influences judges, what downstream effects? Silje Hermansen and Tommaso Pavone; 16. What happened to centralised enforcement? Andreas Hofmann; 17. The policy impact of the court of justice of the European Union Lucia López Zurita and Dorte Sindjberg Martinsen; 18. systematic content analysis of EU internal market law and governance Or Brook; 19. Towards a computational turn in European migration law Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen and William Hamilton Byrne.