Arthur Dyevre

Arthur Dyevre works in the fields of empirical legal studies, judicial behaviour, European integration, comparative law and comparative judicial politics. Prior to joining the Faculty of Law in Leuven, he has held research fellowships at various institutions across Europe, including the European University Institute in Florence, the Centro de Estudios Politicos y Constitucionales (CEPC) in Madrid, and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg.

His current work focuses on the application of automated content analysis techniques to legal texts, judicial forecasting; the interplay between national courts; the European Court of Justice in the EU and legal education reform. He is Principal Investigator in the EUTHORITY Project (ERC Grant 638154, www.euthority.eu) and Director of the Centre for Legal Theory and Empirical Jurisprudence in Leuven.

Areas of specialization

• Judicial Behaviour
• Legal Theory
• Empirical Legal Studies
• European Integration
• Comparative Law and Comparative Judicial Politics
• Law & Economics
• Automated Content Analysis
• Political Economy

Articles in international reviewed journals (13)

• Dyevre A. 2017. Fixing European Law Schools. European Review of Private Law.
• Dyevre A. 2016. Domestic Judicial Defiance and the Authority of International Legal Regimes. European Journal of Law and Economics. , pp. 1-29
• Dyevre A. 2016. Domestic Judicial Defiance in the European Union: A Systemic Threat to the Authority of EU Law?. Yearbook of European Law. vol.35 (1) , pp. 106-144
• Dyevre A. 2015. Technocracy and Distrust: Revisiting the Rationale for Constitutional Review. International Journal of Constitutional Law. vol.13 (1) , pp. 30-60
• Dyevre A. 2014. Law and the Evolutionary Turn: The Relevance of Evolutionary Psychology for Legal Positivism. Ratio Juris. vol.27 (3) , pp. 364-386
• Dyevre A. 2014. If You Can’t Beat Them, Join Them The French Constitutional Council’s First Reference to the Court of Justice (Jeremy F. v. Premier ministre, 4 April 2013). European Constitutional Law Review. vol.10 (1) , pp. 154-161
• Dyevre A. 2013. Filtered Constitutional Review and the Reconfiguration of Judicial Politics. American Journal of Comparative Law. vol.61 (4) , pp. 729-756
• Dyevre A. 2013. European Integration and National Courts: Defending Sovereignty under Institutional Constraints?. European Constitutional Law Review. vol.9 (1) , pp. 139-168
• Dyevre A. 2013. Foreword: Understanding Constitutional Reasoning. German Law Journal. vol.14 (7) , pp. 983-1016
• Dyevre A. 2012. The French Parliament and European Integration. European Public Law. vol.18 (3) , pp. 527-547
• Dyevre A. 2011. The German Federal Constitutional Court and European Judicial Politics. West European Politics. vol.34 (2) , pp. 346-361
• Dyevre A. 2010. Unifying the field of comparative judicial politics: towards a general theory of judicial behaviour. European Political Science Review. vol.2 (2) , pp. 297-327
• Dyevre A. 2005. The Constitutionalisation of the European Union: Discourse, Present, Future and Facts. European Law Review. vol. , pp. 163-187

Articles in national journals (1)

• Dyevre A. 2007. La prise en compte de critères extra-concurrentiels dans le droit communautaire de la concurrence. Revue Internationale de Droit Économique. vol. , pp. 415-440

Books from international publisher (1)

• 2017. Comparative Constitutional Reasoning. Dyevre A., Jakab A., Itcovich G. (eds.) Cambridge University Press (Cambridge)

Books from local publisher (1)

• Dyevre A. 2015. The Future of Legal Theory and the Law School of the Future. Acta Falconis. Intersentia (Antwerpen)

Chapters in books from international publisher (2)

• Dyevre A. 2013. Outline of a Legal Realistic Approach to Legal Integration. In European Legal Method – Towards a New European Legal Realism. Neergaard U., Nielsen R. (eds.) DJOEF Publishing (Copenhagen) , pp. 55-74
• Dyevre A. 2011. Game Theory and Judicial Behaviour. In Game Theory and the Law. Stelmach J., Zaluski W. (eds.) Copernicus University Press (Krakow) , pp. 115-144

Reviews (3)

• Dyevre A. 2013. Real Social Science: Applied Phronesis. European Political Science. vol.12 (4) Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. (BASINGSTOKE) , ISSN 1680-4333
• Dyevre A. 2013. Philosophical Foundations of European Union Law. Common Market Law Review. vol.50 (6) Stevens (THE HAGUE) , ISSN 0165-0750
• Dyevre A. 2011. The European Court’s Political Power: Selected Essays. Common Market Law Review. vol.48 (6) Stevens (THE HAGUE) , ISSN 0165-0750

Various (1)

• Dyevre A., Atanasova A. 2017. EUTHORITY Expert Survey.