Robert Lecourt is recognised as one of the European Court of Justice's most influential judges between 1962 and 1976. Previous research has drawn connections between the legal doctrines established by the Court in the early 1960s and the contents of the doctoral dissertation on French property...

Recent years have seen a growing literature on cross-citations (i.e. citations between courts from different countries). What explains why such cross-citations occur between some courts but not others? This paper addresses this question with original data on 2,967 citations between the...