The Gap Between the Law and What Legal Scholars Say About It: A Topic-Modelling Analysis

There is an old adage about journalism that “a man who eats a chicken is no news, but a chicken who eats a man is”. The mechanisms by which journalists select issues are much better understood than the drivers of issue attention in legal scholarship. In a new article with Michal Ovadek and Monika Glavina, we try to contribute new insights by applying probabilistic topic-modelling to compare the contents of hundreds of thousands of EU legal acts, CJEU rulings and Common Market Law Review articles.