Urska Sadl

Primary fields of research

European constitutional law, international courts, empirical legal studies, judicial decision making

Teaching

EU Constitutional law, Advanced EU constitutional law + Essay class, EU litigation practice (BA level)

Short presentation

Urška Šadl is a Global Research Fellow at iCourts centre of Excellence for International Courts at the Faculty of Law in Copenhagen and an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law in Copenhagen (on special leave). She obtained her BA and Master degree in law from the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana. Urška also holds a LL.M. degree in Legal Studies from the College of Europe in Brugge and a PhD degree from the University of Copenhagen. She has completed research stays at King's College, London, Institute of European and Comparative Law at the University of Oxford and most recently visited the University of Michigan as Michigan Grotius Research Scholar. She is currently Professor at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy (until 2021).

Her research appears i.a. in the European Law Journal, the European Law Review, the European Journal of Legal Studies and the European Constitutional Law Review.

Her primary research interests include the empirical studies of European courts and their jurisprudence, the language of courts, the theory and practice of judicial precedents as well as topics in European constitutional law more generally.

Urška Šadl is one of the founders of NoLesLaw, or the Network of Legal Empirical Scholars https://noleslaw.net/ and committed to collaborative interdisciplinary research. She is also the leader of The Coding Project https://noleslaw.net/the-coding-project/. The project, with a full title Coding the outcomes of 10.250 judgments of the Court of Justice of the European Union combines a systematic approach to judicial outcomes with detailed legal coding to illuminate the legal complexity of the judicial process. 

In autumn 2018 Urška Šadl received a Sapere Aude Research leader grant for her project Judging Under the Influence from the Danish Council for Independent Research (with a starting date in autumn 2019). Her previous project, The atlas of legal evolution: The case of EU law (completed in 2015) was likewise funded by The Danish Council for Independent Research and the Sapare Aude Reseaarch talent grant. 

CV

RESEARCH INTERESTS

European constitutional law, European Court of Justice, empirical legal studies, international courts

CURRENT POSITION

2016 - Associate professor, Faculty of Law, Copenhagen

2016 - Professor, European Univoersity Insitute, Florence

2017 - iCourts Global Research Fellow, Copenhagen

EDUCATION

2012 PhD (November 2012), Faculty of Law,University of Copenhagen

2010 Master of Laws (Postgraduate degree, February 2010), Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana

2003 Master of European Legal Studies (LL.M., June 2003), College of Europe, Bruges

2000 Bachelor of Law (BA, February 2000), Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana

PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT AND AFFILIATIONS

2013 – 2016 Assistant professor in Law, iCourts Centre of Excellence, Faculty of Law, Copenhagen2

2015 – Grotius Visiting Research Scholar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA (January – August)

2012 – 2013 Research Assistant, iCourts Centre of Excellence, Faculty of Law, Copenhagen

2009 – 2012 PhD Researcher, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

                      Maternity/Parental leave from March 2009 until September 2009

2011 Visiting scholar, Institute of European and Comparative Law, University of Oxford, Oxford

2009 Visiting scholar, Centre of European Law, King’s College, London

2008 – 2009 Legal translator (Independent), European Court of Justice, Luxembourg

2004 – 2007 Lawyer linguist & Reviser, European Court of Justice, Luxembourg

                      Maternity leave from January 2006 until November 2006

2003 – 2004 Legal advisor (Legal secretary), Constitutional Court of the Republic of Slovenia, Slovenia

2000 – 2002 Law clerk, Court of Appeal, Ljubljana, Slovenia

TEACHING

Advanced EU constitutional law (MA level), EU litigation practice (BA level, Fall 2015), Empirical methods in Law (PhD course, Fall 2015)