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Project

The Court of Cassation as beacon of the Belgian judicary

Outputs and Outcomes

Code

3F023415

Duration

01 October 2015 → 31 August 2019

Funding

Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)

Promotor

Dirk Heirbaut

Fellow

Matthias Van Der Haegen

Research disciplines

Social sciences
- Law
- Metalaw

Keywords

Supreme Court citations Court of Cassation netwerk analsis development of law

Project description

The project researches the influence of the Court of Cassation on the lower judiciary through statistical and network analysis of citations of cassation decisions. The role of the Court in the development of law is also a venue of research: is the court leading the way or is it just one of many in an interactive playing field?

English

Dutch

English

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