Nordic CONREASON collection of data on constitutional reasoning in the Nordic Supreme Courts
SND-ID: 2023-288. Version: 1. DOI: https://doi.org/10.60689/zmk7-0z14
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Citation
Alternative title
Nordic CONREASON dataset
Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Katalin Kelemen - Örebro University
Research principal
Örebro University - School of Behavioural, Social and Legal Sciences - Legal Science
Principal's reference number
ORU 2020/04204
Description
Data contains personal data
Yes
Type of personal data
Reference to person through court order
Language
Unit of analysis
Population
The 40 leading constitutional cases of the seven Nordic supreme courts (280 observations in total)
Time Method
Sampling procedure
The project participants analyse the 40 leading judgments of each of the 7 Nordic supreme courts. We limited the number of analysed judgments in order to be able to require the project participants to deliver an in-depth quantitative and qualitative analysis of the judgments. The project participants have been instructed to use the ‘expert method’ for the selection of leading cases, a method often applied in social sciences. By leading cases we mean the ‘canon of cases’ that they consider to be the ‘most well-known’ or ‘most important’ within the legal (scholarly and/or judicial) community. Thus, the project participants are supposed to guess about the general (mainstream) scholarly opinion on the list of 40 leading judgments. Possible proxies for the selection are: (1) cases that are typically included in a textbook on domestic constitutional law, (2) cases that are frequently cited in scholarly literature, and (3) cases that are often relied upon as precedents by the analysed court itself. None of these three proxies is, however, decisive in itself. The selection shall take into careful cons
... Show more..The texts of the judgment were retrieved from official domestic databases of case-law. They have not been downloaded or stored by the project participants. Show less..
Time period(s) investigated
1921 – 2022
Variables
53
Number of individuals/objects
280
Geographic spread
Geographic location: Northern Europe
Geographic description: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden
Lowest geographic unit
Country
Highest geographic unit
Country
Responsible department/unit
School of Behavioural, Social and Legal Sciences - Legal Science
Contributor(s)
Haukur Logi Karlsson - University of Iceland, School of Social Sciences
Helle Krunke - University of Copenhagen, Centre for European and Comparative Legal Studies (CECS)
Maija Dahlberg - University of Eastern Finland
Nicklas Pettersson - Örebro University, Business School
Morten Nadim - University of Oslo, Department of Public and International Law
... Show more..Haukur Logi Karlsson - University of Iceland, School of Social Sciences
Helle Krunke - University of Copenhagen, Centre for European and Comparative Legal Studies (CECS)
Maija Dahlberg - University of Eastern Finland
Nicklas Pettersson - Örebro University, Business School
Morten Nadim - University of Oslo, Department of Public and International Law
Åsa Elmerot - Uppsala University, Department of Law
Show less..Research area
Legislation and legal systems (CESSDA Topic Classification)
Law (excluding law and society) (Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2011)