The ELS Academy contributes to the training and support of beginning empirical-legal researchers. The ambition is to enable more researchers at the various faculties to ask empirical questions and to provide them with the empirical “toolbox” to answer those questions. New research groups are being set up at the various faculties, mostly bringing together legal and social scientists. With the recruitment of young researchers, a new generation of empirical-legal researchers is emerging who are driving empirical-legal research at their faculties.