Issue attention on international courts: Evidence from the European Court of Justice

Arthur Dyevre () and Nicolas Lampach
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Arthur Dyevre: KU Leuven Faculty of Law, Centre for Empirical Jurisprudence
Nicolas Lampach: KU Leuven Faculty of Law, Centre for Empirical Jurisprudence

The Review of International Organizations, 2021, vol. 16, issue 4, No 3, 793-815

Abstract: Abstract We exploit variations in access rules on the European Court of Justice to explore the effect of procedural inclusiveness on the agenda of international adjudicators. Using natural language processing methods, we analyze the entire universe of ECJ decisions up to 2015, mapping issue prevalence across time, procedure and litigant type. We find evidence that the more inclusive annulment and referral procedures are associated with greater issue heterogeneity whereas less inclusive infringement procedure displays greater issue cohesiveness as well as greater issue stability over time.

Keywords: International courts; Judicial agenda; Litigation; Text-mining; Topic model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C38 C46 J68 K19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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