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European New Legal Realism and the Empirical Turn in Legal Scholarship

The project studies the ongoing empirical turn in legal research and the prospects of providing viable theoretical foundations for an empirical basic science of international law.

Turning Empirical? The Transformation of Scholarship of International Law (TEMPTATION)

Focusing on scholarship of international law, TEMPTATION aims to theorize and conceptualize the alleged empirical turn philosophically and to study its scope and character empirically.

International Courts and Megapolitics

This project explores three different sources of internationalized mega-politics. This research’s focus is on the more extreme variant of this politicization, the judicialization of mega-politics and the role international adjudicatory bodies play in these politics.

Regional Human Rights

This project explores the explores the evolution of regional human rights. It seeks to provide a first systematic comparison of the institutional histories of the regional human rights systems in Europe, the Americas, and Africa.

Analyzing the Judgements of the European Court of Justice as Cultural Artefacts

This project is conducted by Sabine Mair. It is funded by the European Commission as part of the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action, Individual Fellowship).

PACTA

The overall aim of PACTA is to contribute new knowledge about how algorithmic decision making can be implemented in public administration without undermining the legality or losing public trust in the authorities that use this technology.

Chinese Legal Studies and Chinese Legal Culture: Digitalization and Sustainable Development

The project will explore the development of Chinese culture and Chinese law from a Danish (Nordic) perspective in the context of globalization.

COLLAGE

The COLLAGE project consists of linguistic experiments to create a measurement of the effect(s) of framing on the use of analogical reasoning and the use of judicial precedent in legal decision making.

DigiProf – A Digitalized Legal Profession: Challenge or Opportunity?

This project explores whether and how the above presented recent technological developments are affecting the legal profession and the nature of legal work.

Explainable Artificial Intelligence and Fairness in Asylum Law (XAIfair)

XAIfair is an interdisciplinary project where data scientists (AI/XAI researchers) and legal scholars join forces to overcome the challenge of introducing meaningful XAI into a specific legal domain, namely Nordic asylum law.

INCRICO

The INCRICO project seeks to examine this fundamental interaction by analysing the ways in which the ICC judges themselves conceive of the idea of an international judicial function and how this may impact legal practices at the Court.

Practices of Interpretation in ICL

The project investigates how international criminal law had developed across international criminal courts and tribunals, and enquires into the relevance of these interpretive developments for global governance more generally.