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49 Eur. J.L. & Econ. 1 (2020)

handle is hein.journals/eurjlwec49 and id is 1 raw text is: European Journal of Law and Economics (2020) 49:1-6 https:Ildoi.org/l 0.1007/si 0657-020-09641-x EDITORIAL Let the data tell their own story: a tribute to Ted Eisenberg Giovanni B. Ramello' Stefan Voigt2 Published online: 10 February 2020 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020 Abstract Empirical legal studies (ELS) is a sibling discipline to law and economics. Con- ceived by a visionary scholar almost 40 years ago, it has today become a reality. ELS is currently one of the most interesting phenomena in legal academia. We here celebrate its founder Theodore Eisenberg, and provide a glimpse of this important step forward in modern legal scholarship, for a law and economics audience. Keywords Empirical legal studies - Jurimetrics - Statistics - Empirical law and economics JEL Classification B30 - B49 - C00 - K00 1 Introduction There are different kinds of revolutions. Some are noisy, bloody and conflictual. Others are silent, bloodless and underground-until they emerge and show that change is unavoidable. The latter type of revolution is less visible but not for this less disruptive, since it has the power to gradually change things until a point of no return is reached. One such revolution was engendered in the mind of a visionary scholar and within the circle of his department colleagues. It matured over a couple of decades, and began to manifest itself at the start of the new millennium. In the twenty years since then it has continued to spread, to become today one of the major innovations in current legal scholarship and its surrounding fields. We are talking about empirical legal studies (ELS), a label that sounds almost like an oxymoron, but which is actually the disruption that has shaken legal academia to its roots in the last two decades. This merit is doubly deserving of applause if we consider that the legal community has for a long time, as a number of commentators E Giovanni B. Ramello giovanni.ramello@uniupo.it Universith del Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria, Italy 2 Institute of Law and Economics, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany Springer

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