Comprehensive Research-Ready Data on the CJEU
The IUROPA CJEU Database is the most complete database on the Court of Justice of the European Union — covering all cases, proceedings decisions, judges, Advocates-General, parties, procedures, and more. Plus a full text corpus.
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Comprehensive Coverage
Over seventy years of judicial history
From the Court's first cases in 1954 to the thousands of cases decided in within the last year, The IUROPA CJEU Database captures the full arc of EU judicial activity — from proceedings, to judgments, to judges, to procedures, to citations.
The network of all judgment-to-judgment citations. From the Citations table of the IUROPA CJEU Database Platform.
Annulments
Appeals
Damages
Preliminary Rulings
Noncompliance
Key features
Built for researchers
The IUROPA Database covers every dimension of the Court's work — already collected, cleaned, and structured so you can focus on your research, not data collection.
Complete Coverage
Every case and decision at the Court of Justice, the General Court, and the Civil Service Tribunal since 1952 — with expansive metadata on judges, chambers, procedures, and outcomes.
Research-Ready
Reliable data that is meticulously cleaned, cross-validated, and structured for quantitative research. No need for complex data pipelines.
Full Text Corpus
The full text of every judgment, order, and AG opinion ever published — cleaned, structured, and available as Parquet files for quantitative analysis.
Natural Language Queries
Ask questions in plain English. The query tool translates your request into SQL, fetches the data, and returns exactly what you need.
All Actors Tracked
Judges, Advocates-General, registrars, parties, and lawyers — with biographical and career data for judges and Advocates-General.
Procedures + Outcomes
All preliminary rulings, direct actions (annulments, infringement proceedings), appeals — with dispositions in direct actions and appeals.
Subject Matter
Complete data from EUR-Lex on the Court's official case law directory codes, EUR-Lex keywords, and headnotes for judgments.
Download Options
Download curated tables, the underlying relational tables, or ask the IUROPA AI assistant to prepare tables for you with exactly what you need.
Easy-to-use data
Structured for research
The IUROPA Database is organized into relational tables that can be joined, filtered, and exported. Each table is fully documented with variable-level codebooks.
Download entire tables as CSV files, or use our query tool to request exactly the variables and observations you need — no programming knowledge required.
Browse all tablescases
All cases with procedure type, chamber, dates, and outcomes
procedures
All procedures with procedure type, chamber, dates, and outcomes
decisions
All judgments, orders, and AG opinions with metadata
Parties + Observers
All parties, interveners, and observers who have participated in CJEU cases
Lawyers
All lawyers who have appeared before the CJEU and the parties, interveners, and observers they represented
Judges + AGs
Every judge and AG with data on appointments to the CJEU and data on prior experience
referrals
All referrals from national courts in references for a preliminary ruling with data on the characteristics of national courts
+ Additional tables covering hearings, judge + AG assignments, and more
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