Working group On systematic content analysis of legal text and competition law Add to calendar 2023-03-02 10:30 2023-03-02 12:00 Europe/Rome On systematic content analysis of legal text and competition law Cappella Villa Schifanoia - Chapel YYYY-MM-DD Print Share: Share on Facebook Share on BlueSky Share on X Share on LinkedIn Send by email Scheduled dates Mar 02 2023 10:30 - 12:00 CET Cappella, Villa Schifanoia - Chapel Organised by Department of Law In this talk, Dr Or Brook will present SCA (systematic content analysis), its promises and challenges for studying (EU) competition law, how it informed her research, and what it can offer early career researchers. Legal scholarship and practice are predominately based on the case analysis method. The law is articulated based on limited 'leading' cases, identified by judges or researchers having a bound of authority. This talk will present a different empirical approach to study law, known as systematic content analysis (SCA, or 'coding'). Shifting the focus away from leading cases towards the day-to-day application of the law, SCA attempts to bring the rigour of social science to the study of law. It represents a sought transformation from an authority- to a scientific-based methodology and invites investigations into underreported legal, economic, and political effects of rules and the decision-making process. Related events