Urška Šadlمشاهده پروفایل
دانشیار
Urška Šadl serves as Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, holding a promotion track to full professorship since 2023. She maintains a part-time professorship at the European University Institute in Florence since 2016. Her primary academic affiliation is with the Center for Global Mobility Law (MOBILE) where she coordinates the Legal Change work package examining law's response to external crises. Dr. Šadl earned her law degrees from the University of Ljubljana (BA and MA), an LLM from The College of Europe in Brugge, and completed her PhD at the University of Copenhagen in 2012 with the thesis The European Palimpsest: Justificatory practices and precedent construction at the Court of Justice of the European Union . Her academic journey includes guest researcher positions at King's College London, University of Oxford's Institute of European and Comparative Law, University of Michigan (as Grotius Scholar), and Columbia Law School. Her research fundamentally bridges European Union law with empirical methodologies, focusing on the internal market, free movement of persons, and European citizenship. She pioneers the integration of citation network analysis, machine learning, and judicial politics insights into legal scholarship, particularly examining the European Court of Justice's decision-making processes, precedent construction, and interactions with national courts. This interdisciplinary approach has positioned her at the forefront of empirical legal studies within EU law scholarship. Analysis of her recent publications reveals a consistent trajectory toward methodological innovation in legal analysis. Her work increasingly employs computational techniques to map legal evolution, particularly through citation networks and community detection algorithms applied to ECJ case law. The thematic focus remains centered on judicial behavior and institutional dynamics within the EU legal order, with growing emphasis on how external pressures transform legal interpretation and application. Sapere Aude Research Leader Grant (Danish Council for Independent Research) for the five-year project Judging Under the Influence Co-founder of the European Society for Empirical Legal Studies (ESELS) Co-coordinator of the IUROPA collaborative research project (Swedish Research Council grant) Co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Comparative Judicial Behavior Dr. Šadl directs significant research initiatives including the Sapere Aude-funded Judging Under the Influence project that examines national courts, European Commission, and Member State governments' influence on ECJ interpretive techniques. She co-coordinates the IUROPA project investigating European Union agency networks. Her work with the European Society for Empirical Legal Studies has established important infrastructure for data-driven legal scholarship across Europe. Within the MOBILE Center for Global Mobility Law, she leads the Legal Change work package analyzing how law adapts to external crises. Her research group employs interdisciplinary methodologies combining legal analysis with network science and computational approaches to study institutional transformations in EU law.
