This article is concerned with identifying how contemporary data technology can be used to find and analyse the big amount of case law generated by international courts in a more comprehensive way than that achieved through the traditional manual reading of case law at the core of textbook or doctrinal analysis of judgements. The focus of the article is the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHRs) and its Article 14 + 2 case law, which is studied through the tools of citation network analysis. The resulting findings are then compared to a standard textbook approach in order to show how citation network analysis offers a reliable method in selecting cases for qualitative analysis and drawing information relevant to specific legal issues. The article proposes and eventually advances a new approach to legal research, which integrates quantitative network analysis with qualitative legal (doctrinal) analysis, and shows how this form of analysis enables a study of case law through the recognition of patterns within it that would have otherwise been difficult to identify. Using this approach to advance new insights into the prohibition of discrimination under Article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), the article ultimately offers a new instrument for scholars and practitioners to put into use when considering the future narrative of discrimination law.

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在 ECtHR 判例法中寻找隐藏模式

本文关注的是识别如何使用当代数据技术以比传统的以教科书或教义为核心的判例法手动阅读更全面的方式发现和分析国际法院产生的大量判例法。判断分析。文章的重点是欧洲人权法院（ECtHRs）及其第14+2条判例法，通过引文网络分析的工具进行研究。然后将所得结果与标准教科书方法进行比较，以展示引文网络分析如何提供一种可靠的方法来选择案例进行定性分析并绘制与特定法律问题相关的信息。文章提出并最终提出了一种新的法律研究方法，它将定量网络分析与定性法律（教义）分析相结合，并展示了这种分析形式如何通过识别其中原本难以识别的模式来研究判例法。使用这种方法推进对《欧洲人权公约》（ECHR）第 14 条禁止歧视的新见解，该文章最终为学者和从业者在考虑歧视法的未来叙述时提供了一种新的工具。