Empirical Legal Studies in the Netherlands

This volume showcases a collection of Empirical Legal Studies (ELS) that were conducted at five universities in the Netherlands as part of the Law Sector Plan in the period between 2019 and 2025. The contributions to this volume use both quantitative and qualitative research methods to study the effects of court decisions and legislation in various fields of law, including civil law, criminal law, administrative law and EU law. Based on these contributions, this volume examines how ELS research can help us to understand the limits and possibilities of a new 'jurisprudence of consequences'. In other words, how does ELS research help us to understand the social effects of law? And how does ELS research help us to understand how judges, legislators and other legal practitioners may (or may not) use empirical findings in legal decisionmaking? This volume provides a valuable overview of innovative empirical legal research and will be of interest to academics, practitioners and students who are interested in the realworld effects of the law.