BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//TYPO3/NONSGML Calendarize//EN
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:calendarize-38054
DTSTAMP:20250321
DTSTART:20250402T140000Z
DTEND:20250402T153000Z
SUMMARY:Research Colloquium - Prof. Daniel Naurin
DESCRIPTION:The colloquium will take place in-person in RIGA 601.\n\nThe t
 alk presents a new empirical approach to identifying court driven legal ch
 ange, by studying court citations to previous case law. It focuses on the 
 Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). Like other precedent s
 etting courts, the judgments of the CJEU include holdings specifying rules
  and principles. A core challenge for research is how to identify&nbs
 p;changes to the relevance of such holdings – their precedential value –
  without having to engage in resource intensive qualitative legal research
 . We use machine learning techniques to predict expected citations, b
 ased on the Court’s previous citation behavior and the relevance of a ho
 lding to the facts and legal issues raised in new cases, and operationaliz
 e the precedential value as the ratio of actual citations to expected cita
 tions. Besides contributing to academic research on legal change our 
 project aims at developing better tools for judges and practicing lawyers 
 when deciding which cases to rely on.
LOCATION:
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR