Legal Research Methodology

Author : Uzoma Ihugba
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789785916546

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Introduction to Legal Research Method and Legal Writing by Uzoma Ihugba Pdf

The book is written in a conversational style, and the language is accessible and simple, with flowing examples that users can relate with. Practical legal questions are raised and application of individual research methods, strategies, approaches and philosophies are demonstrated. The book starts with a clear definition of legal research method to justification and importance. It spans the research process, theoretical positions and justification for research, the writing up process and the defence of research output either in seminars, conferences or for PhD defence. It also prepares researchers and academicians for discussion and interaction with peers at conferences and seminars.

Author : Mike McConville
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781474404259

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Research Methods for Law by Mike McConville Pdf

Introduces students to legalistic, theoretical, empirical, comparative and cross-disciplinary research methods, grounded in working examplesNew for this editionNew chapter on inter- and cross-disciplinary research essential reading for international students and students with a non-law first degree undertaking research in the areas of law, criminology, psychology and sociologyResearch ethics has been expanded to a full chapter that includes current plagiarism and imperfect disclosureBrings existing chapters up to date with the newest thinking in legal researchDrawing on actual research projects, Research Methods for Law discusses how legal research as process impacts on research as product. The author team has a broad range of teaching and research experience in law, criminal justice and socio-legal studies, and give examples from real-life research products to illustrate the theory.

Author : Laura Cahillane,Jennifer Schweppe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Legal research
ISBN : 1905536763

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Legal Research Methods by Laura Cahillane,Jennifer Schweppe Pdf

"This collection arose out of a conference hosted by the School of Law in the University of Limerick in October 2014."--Preface.

Author : Ernst H. Ballin
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781788977173

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Advanced Introduction to Legal Research Methods by Ernst H. Ballin Pdf

Written by Ernst Hirsch Ballin, this original Advanced Introduction uncovers the foundations of legal research methods, an area of legal scholarship distinctly lacking in standardisation. The author shows how such methods differ along critical, empirical, and fundamental lines, and how our understanding of these is crucial to overcoming crises and restoring trust in the law. Key topics include a consideration of law as a normative language and an examination of the common objects of legal research.

Author : Mark Van Hoecke
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781847317803

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Methodologies of Legal Research by Mark Van Hoecke Pdf

Until quite recently questions about methodology in legal research have been largely confined to understanding the role of doctrinal research as a scholarly discipline. In turn this has involved asking questions not only about coverage but, fundamentally, questions about the identity of the discipline. Is it (mainly) descriptive, hermeneutical, or normative? Should it also be explanatory? Legal scholarship has been torn between, on the one hand, grasping the expanding reality of law and its context, and, on the other, reducing this complex whole to manageable proportions. The purely internal analysis of a legal system, isolated from any societal context, remains an option, and is still seen in the approach of the French academy, but as law aims at ordering society and influencing human behaviour, this approach is felt by many scholars to be insufficient. Consequently many attempts have been made to conceive legal research differently. Social scientific and comparative approaches have proven fruitful. However, does the introduction of other approaches leave merely a residue of 'legal doctrine', to which pockets of social sciences can be added, or should legal doctrine be merged with the social sciences? What would such a broad interdisciplinary field look like and what would its methods be? This book is an attempt to answer some of these questions.

Author : Dawn Watkins,Mandy Burton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135051372

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Research Methods in Law by Dawn Watkins,Mandy Burton Pdf

The aim of this book is to explain in clear terms some of the main methodological approaches in legal research. This is an edited collection, with each chapter written by specialists in their field, researching in a variety of jurisdictions. Each contributor addresses the topic of "lay decision makers in the legal system" from one particular methodological perspective, explaining how they would approach the issue and discussing why their particular method might, or might not, be suited to this topic. In asking all contributors to focus on the same topic, the editors have sought to provide a common link throughout the text, thereby providing the reader with an opportunity to draw comparisons between methods with relative ease. In light of the broad geographical range of its contributors, the book is aimed at an international readership. This book will be of particular interest to PhD students in law, but it will also be of use to undergraduate dissertation students in law, LL.M Research students as well as prospective PhD students and early year researchers.

Author : P. Ishwara Bhat
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199098309

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Idea and Methods of Legal Research by P. Ishwara Bhat Pdf

Legal research examines subject matter enshrouded in social circumstances in order to conceptualize theories and prepare a future course of action. This dynamic, inter-disciplinary, and labyrinthine character of legal research requires researchers to be fluid, eclectic, and analytical in their approach. Idea and Methods of Legal Research unearths how the thinking process is to be streamlined in research, how a theme is built on the basis of comprehensive and intensive study, and the paths through which notions of objectivity, feminism, ethics, and purposive character of knowledge are to be understood. The book first explains the meaning, evolution, and scope of legal research, and discusses objectivity and ethics in legal research. It engages with the requirements, advantages, and limits of various doctrinal and non-doctrinal methods and tools, and the points to be considered in selecting a suitable method or combination of methods. It highlights analytical, historical, philosophical, comparative, qualitative, and quantitative methods of legal research. The book then goes on to discuss the use of multi-method legal research, policy research, action research, and feminist legal research and finally, reflects on research-based critical legal writing, as opposed to client-related legal writing. This book, thus, is a comprehensive answer to key questions one faces in legal research.

Author : Frans L. Leeuw,Hans Schmeets
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781782549413

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Empirical Legal Research by Frans L. Leeuw,Hans Schmeets Pdf

Empirical Legal Research describes how to investigate the roles of legislation, regulation, legal policies and other legal arrangements at play in society. It is invaluable as a guide to legal scholars, practitioners and students on how to do empirical legal research, covering history, methods, evidence, growth of knowledge and links with normativity. This multidisciplinary approach combines insights and approaches from different social sciences, evaluation studies, Big Data analytics and empirically informed ethics. The authors present an overview of the roots of this blossoming interdisciplinary domain, going back to legal realism, the fields of law, economics and the social sciences, and also to civilology and evaluation studies. The book addresses not only data analysis and statistics, but also how to formulate adequate research problems, to use (and test) different types of theories (explanatory and intervention theories) and to apply new forms of literature research to the field of law such as the systematic, rapid and realist reviews and synthesis studies. The choice and architecture of research designs, the collection of data, including Big Data, and how to analyze and visualize data are also covered. The book discusses the tensions between the normative character of law and legal issues and the descriptive and causal character of empirical legal research, and suggests ways to help handle this seeming disconnect. This comprehensive guide is vital reading for law practitioners as well as for students and researchers dealing with regulation, legislation and other legal arrangements.

Author : Deplano, Rossana,Tsagourias, Nicholas
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781788972369

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Research Methods in International Law by Deplano, Rossana,Tsagourias, Nicholas Pdf

This timely Handbook contains a wide-ranging overview of the diverse research methods used within international law. Providing an insightful examination of how international legal knowledge is analysed and adopted, this Handbook offers the reader a deeper understanding on the role and place of research methods in international legal theory, reasoning and practice.

Author : Lee Epstein,Andrew D. Martin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199669059

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An Introduction to Empirical Legal Research by Lee Epstein,Andrew D. Martin Pdf

An Introduction to Empirical Legal Research introduces empirical methodology in a legal context, explaining how empirical analysis can inform legal arguments; how lawyers can set about framing empirical questions, conducting empirical research, analysing data, and presenting or evaluating the results.

Author : Nuraisyah Chua Abdullah
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Law
ISBN : 9672187238

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Legal Research Methodology by Nuraisyah Chua Abdullah Pdf

Author : Mike McConville
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781474404259

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Research Methods for Law by Mike McConville Pdf

Introduces students to legalistic, theoretical, empirical, comparative and cross-disciplinary research methods, grounded in working examplesNew for this editionNew chapter on inter- and cross-disciplinary research essential reading for international students and students with a non-law first degree undertaking research in the areas of law, criminology, psychology and sociologyResearch ethics has been expanded to a full chapter that includes current plagiarism and imperfect disclosureBrings existing chapters up to date with the newest thinking in legal researchDrawing on actual research projects, Research Methods for Law discusses how legal research as process impacts on research as product. The author team has a broad range of teaching and research experience in law, criminal justice and socio-legal studies, and give examples from real-life research products to illustrate the theory.

Author : Peter Cane,Herbert M. Kritzer
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 1111 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199542475

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The Oxford Handbook of Empirical Legal Research by Peter Cane,Herbert M. Kritzer Pdf

Herbert M. Kritzer is the Marvin J. Sonosky Chair of Law and Public Policy at the University of Minnesota Law School. --Book Jacket.

Author : Rattan Singh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8180388972

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Legal Research Methodology by Rattan Singh Pdf

Author : Eric P. Voigt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Legal research
ISBN : 153100783X

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Legal Research Demystified by Eric P. Voigt Pdf

Legal Research Demystified offers a real-world approach to legal research for first-year law students. The book guides students through eight steps to research common law issues and ten steps to research statutory issues. It breaks down the research steps and process into "bite-size" pieces for novice researchers, minimizing the frustration often associated with learning new skills. This text also gives students context, explaining why and when a source or finding tool should be used when researching the law. The process of legal research, of course, is not linear. This book constantly reminds students of the recursive nature of legal research, and it identifies specific situations when they may deviate from the research steps. Through the book's step-by-step approach, students will connect seemingly unrelated tools (e.g., citators and the Key Number System) and understand how to leverage them to answer legal questions. Every chapter includes charts, diagrams, and screen captures to illustrate the research steps and finding methods. Each chapter concludes with a "summary of key points" section that reinforces important concepts from the chapter. This book provides students and professors with multiple assessment tools. Each chapter ends with true-false and multiple-choice questions that test students' understanding of chapter content. These questions are replicated on the book's companion website, Core Knowledge. Students may answer these end-of-chapter questions, as well as more advanced questions, on Core Knowledge and receive immediate feedback, including an explanation of why the answer is correct or incorrect. Professors can generate reports to track students' performance. Based on students' performance, professors will know whether to review a topic in more detail or to move to the next topic. (New books contain an access code to Core Knowledge; students purchasing used books can buy an access code separately.) Core Knowledge offers yet another assessment tool: interactive research exercises. These online exercises walk students through the research steps on Westlaw and Lexis Advance, giving professors the option to "flip" the classroom. Through many screen captures and tips, students can navigate both research platforms outside of class, allowing students and professors to dig deeper into the material during class. Each research exercise simulates a real-world research experience and contains self-grading questions. For example, in one exercise, students research on Westlaw to determine whether the client could recover damages against a neighbor for the emotional distress for the death of the client's dog. To answer the client's question, students must complete the research steps, including finding and reviewing secondary sources on Westlaw, using the Key Number System and KeyCite, and performing keyword searches. Professor support materials include a Teacher's Manual, sample syllabi, and sample research exams.