Core Empirical Legal Research Books
Say it with Figures
Hans Zeisel
1947
American Legal Realism and Empirical Social Science
John Henry Schlegel
2000
The Oxford Handbook of Legal Studies
Peter Cane & Mark Tushnet
2003
Research Methods for Law
Mike McConville &
Wing Hong Chui
2007
Empirical Methods in Law
Robert M. Lawless & Jennifer K. Robbennolt & Thomas S. Ulen
2009
The Oxford Handbook of Empirical Legal Research
Peter Cane & Mark Tushnet
2012
Empirical Legal Analysis
Yun-chien Chang
2013
Research Methods in Law
Dawn Watkins
2013
An Introduction to Empirical Legal Research
Lee Epstein & Andrew D. Martin
2014
Empirical Legal Research: A Guidance Book for Lawyers
Legislators and Regulators Frans L. Leeuw & Hans Schmeets
2016
Empirical Methods in Law,
Second Edition
Robert M. Lawless & Jennifer K. Robbennolt & Thomas S. Ulen
2016
Research Methods in Law Second Edition
Dawn Watkins
2017
Data-Driven Law: Data Analytics and the New Legal Services Edward J Walters (Ed.)
2018
Empirical Legal Research in Action: Reflections on Methods and their Applications
Willem H. van Boom & Pieter Desmet & Peter Mascini
2018
Law as Data: Computation, Text, & the Future of Legal Analysis
Michael A. Livermore & Daniel N Rockmore
2019
Empirical Legal Research:
A Primer
Kees van den Bos
2020
Computational Legal Studies: The Promise and Challenge of Data-Driven Research
Ryan Whalen (Ed.)
2020
The Cambridge Handbook of the Law of Algorithms
Woodrow Barfield
2020
Advanced Introduction to
Empirical Legal Research
Herbert M. Kritzer, Marvin J. Sonosky
2021
Research Methods for Empirical Legal Studies: An Introduction Catrien Bijleveld
2023
Clinical Education, Empirical Study, and Legal Scholarship | S.H. Leleiko | 1979 | https://www.jstor.org/stable/42892498 |
Why Don't Law Professors Do More Empirical Research | Peter H. Schuck | 1989 | https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/jled39&div=43&id=&page= |
The Choice-Of-Law Revolution: An Empirical Study | Patrick J. Borchers | 1992 | https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/waslee49&div=31&id=&page= |
Empirical Legal Scholarship: Reestablishing a Dialogue between the Academy and Profession | Craig Allen Nard | 1995 | https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/wflr30&div=25&id=&page= |
Empirical Methodology and Legal Scholarship | Michael Heise | 2002 | https://www.jstor.org/stable/1600351 |
The Rules of Inference | Lee Epstein & Gary King | 2002 | https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/uclrev/vol69/iss1/1/ |
Exchange: Empirical Research and the Goals of Legal Scholarship | Lee Epstein & Gary King | 2002 | https://www.jstor.org/stable/i272241 |
A Defense of Empirical Legal Scholarship | Richard L. Revesz | 2002 | https://www.jstor.org/stable/1600352 |
Why Do Empirical Legal Scholarship | Theodore Eisenberg | 2004 | https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/sanlr41&div=70&id=&page= |
Empirical Legal Scholarship as Scientific Dialogue | Gregory Mitchell | 2004 | https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/nclr83&div=13&id=&page= |
An Empirical Study of Empirical Legal Scholarship: The Top Law Schools | Tracey E. George | 2006 | https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/indana81&div=15&id=&page= |
Empirical Studies of Corporate Law | Sanjai Bhagat & Roberta Romano | 2007 | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1574073007020130 |
When do Facts Persuade? Some Thoughts on the Market for "Empirical Legal Studies" | Elizabeth Chambliss | 2008 | https://www.jstor.org/stable/27592235 |
Empirical Legal Studies Before 1940: A Bibliographic Essay | Herbert M. Kritzer | 2009 | https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1007&context=faculty_articles |
Empirical Legal Scholarship in Law Reviews | Diamond & Mueller | 2010 | https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-102209-152848 |
Toward a New Legal Empiricism: Empirical Legal Studies and New Legal Realism | Mark C. Suchman & Elizabeth Mertz | 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.lawsocsci.093008.131617 |
Empirical Legal Scholarship in Law Reviews | Shari Seidman Diamond & Pam Mueller | 2010 | https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-102209-152848 |
The Oxford Handbook of Empirical Legal Research | Cane & Kritzer (Eds.) | 2010 | https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/35077 |
The Use of Legal Scholarship by the Federal Courts of Appeals: An Empirical Study | David L.Schwartz & Lee Petherbridge | 2010 | https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/clqv96&div=51&id=&page= |
The Origins, Nature, and Promise of Empirical Legal Studies and a Response to Concerns | Theodore Eisenberg | 2011 | https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/unilllr2011&div=67&id=&page= |
The Legal Reasoning of ICSID Tribunals | Ole K. Fauchald | 2011 | https://doi.org/10.1093/ejil/chn004 |
The Empirical Study of Law and Courts | Artemus Ward | 2013 | https://digitalcommons.law.utulsa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2879&context=tlr |
Introduction: The Empirical Revolution in Law | Daniel E. Ho & Larry Kramer | 2013 | https://www.jstor.org/stable/23528249 |
The Scored Society | Danielle Citron & Frank Pasquale | 2014 | https://digitalcommons.law.uw.edu/wlr/vol89/iss1/2 |
An Introduction to Empirical Legal Research | Epstein & Martin | 2014 | https://global.oup.com/academic/product/an-introduction-to-empirical-legal-research-9780199669066 |
Consistency and Legal Innovation in the BIT Universe | Wolfgang Alschner & Dmitriy Skougarevskiy | 2015 | https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2595288 |
Empirical Legal Research: The Gap between Facts and Values and Legal Academic Training | Frans L. Leeuw | 2015 | https://doi.org/10.18352/ulr.315 |
Empirical Legal Research: A Guidance Book | Leeuw & Schmeets | 2016 | https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/empirical-legal-research-9781784718305.html |
The Empirical Turn in International Legal Scholarship | Gregory Shaffer & Tom Ginsburg | 2017 | https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-journal-of-international-law/article/abs/empirical-turn-in-international-legal-scholarship/C18FC67169A7ADBA682100C840F49B5A |
International Arbitration: Myth and Reality | Susan D. Franck | 2018 | https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3222792 |
Data Science and the Law | Casey, Gelbach & Casey | 2019 | https://columbialawreview.org/content/data-science-and-the-law/ |
Law as Data | Livermore & Rockmore (Eds.) | 2019 | https://www.amazon.com/Law-Data-Computation-Future-Analysis/dp/1634593530 |
Sense and Similarity: Automating Legal Text Comparison | Wolfgang Alschner | 2020 | https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/edcoll/9781788977449/9781788977449.00006.xml |
The Empirical Turn in Int’l Legal Scholarship | Wolfgang Alschner | 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1017/glj.2020.61 |
Computational Methods in Legal Analysis | Jens Frankenreiter & Michael A. Livermore | 2020 | https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3568558 |
The Logic of Law and Code | Ryan Whalen | 2020 | https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3554202 |
The Computational Analysis of International Law | Wolfgang Alschner | 2021 | https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/edcoll/9781788972352/9781788972352.00022.xml |
Computational Methods for Legal Analysis | Kantorowicz-Reznichenko | 2021 | https://www.erasmuslawreview.nl/tijdschrift/ELR/2021/2/ELR-D-21-00010 |
ISDS Actors’ Behavior | Runar Hilleren Lie | 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1017/glj.2022.26 |
The Data-Driven Future of Int’l Economic Law | Wolfgang Alschner & Joost Pauwelyn & Sergio Puig | 2023 | https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3592325 |
Computational Legal Studies Comes of Age | Bao Kham Chau | 2024 | https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=4826144 |
A Case Study of the Advent of Empirical Legal Studies in the Netherlands: The Narrow Pathway of Instrumentalism | Peter Mascini | 2025 | https://publicera.kb.se/ejels/article/view/24724 |
Legal Judgment Prediction using Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning Methods: A Systematic Literature Review | Nasa Zata Dina
Sri Devi Ravana
Norisma Idris | 2025 | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/21582440251329663 |
Decoding Public and Private Al Legal Tech: Autonomy, Liability, Legal and Ethical Risks | Erion Murati | 2025 | https://www.scilit.com/publications/3df58f74195cabc603ae7643b4a8addd |
Empirical Legal Research In a Digital Society: Questions, Approaches, Examples, and a Case study | Antonia Waltermann & Frans L. Leeuw | 2025 | https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/book/9781803925677/chapter5.xml |
Assessing the Conservative Nature of the Supreme Court of Japan via Ideal Point Estimation of Justices | Hirofumi Miwa | 2025 | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jels.12411?casa_token=08Q7RJYIgRQAAAAA:Me57hV3EnlQv-KtokL3LZFeVh-50SZ_gNN1BePPm_dORvdAxk8CvSX5Lr596nR-djH31gVZg4--wDw |
Computational Legal Studies: Is Turkey Ready for the Future of Legal Research? | Aişe Gül Akkoyun | 2025 | https://nasamer.ku.edu.tr/en/computational-legal-studies-is-turkey-ready-for-the-future-of-legal-research/ |
Human Realignment: An Empirical Study of LLMs as Legal Decision-Aids in Moral Dilemmas | Christoph Engel
Yoan Hermstrüwer
Alison Kim | 2025 | https://www.coll.mpg.de/389160/2025_03online.pdf |
