Empirical legal studies in the law school curriculum in the Netherlands: what is the state of the art and where do we go from here?

Abstract

This paper describes and discusses the portfolio of courses in which empirical legal research skills are currently taught to law students in the Netherlands. It results from an in-depth country-wide study we undertook as part of a project supported by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) in view of the growing attention to empirical legal studies (ELS). The paper concludes with a reflection on the future of ELS education in the Netherlands.