OutlineThe seminar explores legal scholar’s claim to knowledge and understanding. In particular, it looks into the various kinds of truth-claims made (often implicitly) by legal scholars. These includ...

Nomothetic accounts of politics have postulated a deductive framework to explain political behavior, in principle applicable across space and over time. In this framework, self-interest is the driving...

Training seminar

This seminar examines the interplay of law and politics in judicial decision making from the legal and from the political science perspective. It focuses on the Court of Justice of the EU.The seminar ...

This course provides students the opportunity to experience the full arc of a complex, collaborative, transparent and reproducible research project. Its goal is to prepare you to produce research that...

Research seminar

Departmental seminar

- EXCLUSIVELY FOR EC MEMBERS - The Executive Committee meets to deal with the day-to-day management of the Institute. It prepares decision-making documents for the Academic Council, and is part of t...

Discussions over law and technology are all the rage as a new wave of digital innovations like artificial intelligence ( AI ), block chain, augmented reality and robotics are developed and deployed in...

This webinar will offer an introduction to Tropy, a free desktop software that allows you to organize and describe photos of archival research material. Directed toward historians, social science rese...

In the framework of the HEC Department Colloquium lecture seriesWaste is a large and fuzzy concept: large because it encompasses anything ranging from human excreta to nuclear waste, and fuzzy because...

Training seminar

The increasing availability of longitudinal data, namely data in which the same units (often individuals) are observed over time (usually every year), provides researchers with many opportunities. For...

Training seminar

This short course on The Law of AI and BIG Data will provide an introduction to key legal issues of Big Data and AI, based on awareness of the social effects of these disruptive technologies. First th...

The 2019 European Parliament elections have been described as ‘a fateful election for Europe’. Despite the outcome not matching the feared landslide success of Eurosceptic and populist forces, the gen...

Examining BoardProfessor Urška Šadl , EUI (Supervisor)Professor Bruno De Witte, EUIProfessor Anneli Albi, University of KentMichal Bobek, Court of Justice of the European UnionSUMMARYThis thesis exami...

This is a course about how to evaluate and conduct rigorous, epistemologically plural qualitative research. It will both introduce you to key concepts and methods – cause and case studies, positionali...

Institutions are the second nature of society. Creations of men and women, institutions order social, political, economic and even cultural intercourse. Indeed, institutions constitute the very basi...

Training Seminar