The German Federal Courts Dataset 1950–2019: From Paper Archives to Linked Open Data

Hamann, Hanjo

doi:10.1111/jels.12230

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“…Since 2005, all decisions include reference to prior instances, including their docket number, which enabled us to retrieve judgments issued by the respective RCs and HRCs. However, because only a minority of RC court decisions were published (Hamann 2019), we had to concentrate on those case origins that allowed us to compile full documentation of the appellate process from 2005 to 2019.…”

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The Judicial Geography of Patent Litigation in Germany: Implications for the Institutionalization of the European Unified Patent Court

Zipf,

Glückler,

Khuchua

et al. 2023

Social Sciences

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The Unified Patent Court (UPC) will be the pillar of a unified European patent enforcement system. Crucial to its success will be the harmonization of geographical variation in national jurisdictions. Germany offers a unique opportunity to explore such harmonization, as plaintiffs can choose between twelve regional courts to file a patent suit, resulting in different patent court practices within the same jurisdiction. Adopting a legal geography perspective, we examine the appellate process as a mechanism that reconciles regional variation in court practices. Based on more than 100 decisions from 34 contentious litigations that went through all instances up to the Federal Court of Justice between 2005 and 2019, we find that decision reversals, case citations and guiding principles are important tools to improve error correction and judicial consistency within an IP system. We see these instruments as crucial for national harmonization also in the upcoming European framework.

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Section: Data: Contentious Cases Of Patent Litigationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Judicial Geography of Patent Litigation in Germany: Implications for the Institutionalization of the European Unified Patent Court

Zipf,

Glückler,

Khuchua

et al. 2023

Social Sciences

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“…The ruling specifies that abstract case characteristics must determine the allocation of cases to groups of judges. Furthermore, the exact composition of the responsible panel for any specific case arising in the coming business year has to emerge directly from the case allocation plan ( Geschäftsverteilungsplan , for a discussion of the terminology, see Hamann, 2019, p. 673).…”

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Does Group Familiarity Improve Deliberations in Judicial Teams? Evidence from the German Federal Court of Justice

Swalve¹

2022

J Empirical Legal Studies

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Collegiality plays a central role in judicial decision-making. However, we still lack empirical evidence about the effects of collegiality on judicial decision-making. In this article, I argue familiarity, an antecedent to collegiality, improves judicial deliberations by encouraging minority dissent and a more extensive debate of different legal viewpoints. Relying on a novel dataset of 21,613 appeals in criminal cases at the German Federal Court of Justice between 1990 and 2016, I exploit quasi-random assignment of cases to decisionmaking groups to show that judges' pairwise familiarity substantially increases the probability that judges schedule a main hearing after first-stage deliberations. Group familiarity also increases the length of the justification of the ruling. The findings have implications for the way courts organize the assignment of judges to panels.

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“…There is a general consensus that the past two decades have witnessed a growth in empirical legal research, not least in response to sustained demand from policymakers and practitioners (Cane and Kritzer 2010, Ho and Kramer 2013, Leeuw 2015, Creutzfeldt et al 2019, Hamann 2019. However, there is also evidence of a longstanding empirical legal skills deficit internationally, due to limited research education for law students within undergraduate programmes (Genn et al 2006).…”

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Scaling up research on family justice using large-scale administrative data: an invitation to the socio-legal community

Broadhurst

Cusworth

Harwin

et al. 2021

Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law

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This article outlines the value of administrative data for family justice research. Although socio-legal scholars have extended their research beyond purely theoretical or doctrinal analyses, studies using large-scale digital datasets remain few in number. As new opportunities arise to link large-scale administrative datasets across health, education, welfare and justice, it is vital that the community of family justice researchers and analysts are supported to deliver research based on entire service or family court populations. In this context, this article provides a definition of administrative data, before outlining the potential of single, linked or blended administrative data sets for family justice research. The remaining sections of the article speak to questions that are pertinent to this particular academic community, including the distinctive contribution of the socio-legal scholar to interdisciplinary teams and the place of data providers in collaborative research. Drawing on the sociological concept of 'publics', the final section considers the multiple interest groups whose social licence must be secured, when personal records are used to understand the relationship between law and family life.

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The German Federal Courts Dataset 1950–2019: From Paper Archives to Linked Open Data

Cited by 18 publications

References 24 publications

The Judicial Geography of Patent Litigation in Germany: Implications for the Institutionalization of the European Unified Patent Court

The Judicial Geography of Patent Litigation in Germany: Implications for the Institutionalization of the European Unified Patent Court

Does Group Familiarity Improve Deliberations in Judicial Teams? Evidence from the German Federal Court of Justice

Scaling up research on family justice using large-scale administrative data: an invitation to the socio-legal community

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