Methodologies Of Legal Research

Author : Mark Van Hoecke
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 47,6 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 : 263 pages
File Size : 51,5 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 : Mike McConville
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,6 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 : 41,5 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 : 48,6 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 : Deplano, Rossana,Tsagourias, Nicholas
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 54,6 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 : P. Ishwara Bhat
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 44,7 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 : Naomi Creutzfeldt,Marc Mason,Kirsten McConnachie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780429489747

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Routledge Handbook of Socio-Legal Theory and Methods by Naomi Creutzfeldt,Marc Mason,Kirsten McConnachie Pdf

Drawing on a range of approaches from the social sciences and humanities, this handbook explores theoretical and empirical perspectives that address the articulation of law in society, and the social character of the rule of law. The vast field of socio-legal studies provides multiple lenses through which law can be considered. Rather than seeking to define the field of socio-legal studies, this book takes up the experiences of researchers within the field. First-hand accounts of socio-legal research projects allow the reader to engage with diverse theoretical and methodological approaches within this fluid interdisciplinary area. The book provides a rich resource for those interested in deepening their understanding of the variety of theories and methods available when law is studied in its broadest social context, as well as setting those within the history of the socio-legal movement. The chapters consider multiple disciplinary lenses – including feminism, anthropology and sociology – as well as a variety of methodologies, including: narrative, visual and spatial, psychological, economic and epidemiological approaches. Moreover, these are applied in a range of substantive contexts such as online hate speech, environmental law, biotechnology, research in post-conflict situations, race and LGBT+ lawyers. The handbook brings together younger contributors and some of the best-known names in the socio-legal field. It offers a fresh perspective on the past, present and future of sociolegal studies that will appeal to students and scholars with relevant interests in a range of subjects, including law, sociology and politics. Chapter 7 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Author : Bård A. Andreassen,Hans-Otto Sano,Siobhán McInerney-Lankford
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781785367793

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Research Methods in Human Rights by Bård A. Andreassen,Hans-Otto Sano,Siobhán McInerney-Lankford Pdf

Methodological discussion has largely been neglected in human rights research, with legal scholars in particular tending to address research methods and methodological reflection implicitly rather than explicitly. This book advances thinking on human rights methodology, offering instruction and guidance on the methodological options for human rights research.

Author : Terry C. M. Hutchinson
Publisher : Lawbook Company
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Academic writing
ISBN : 0455226784

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Researching and Writing in Law by Terry C. M. Hutchinson Pdf

The revolution in legal research provides exciting challenges for those exploring and writing about the legal landscape. Cumbersome paper sources have largely been replaced by electronic files and a new range of skills and sources are required to successfully conduct legal research. Researching and Writing in Law, 3rd Edition is an updated research guide, mapping the developments that have taken place and providing the keys to the fundamental electronic sources of legal research, especially those now available on the web, as well as exploring traditional doctrinal methodologies. Included in this edition are extensive checklists for locating and validating the law in Australia, England, Canada, the United States, New Zealand, India and the European Union. This third edition includes expanded discussion of the process of formulating a research proposal, writing project abstracts and undertaking a literature review (Chapter 7). Research methodologies are also extensively examined, focusing on the process of doctrinal methodology as well as discussing other useful methodologies, such as Comparative Research and Content Analysis (Chapter 5). Further highlighted are issues surrounding research ethics, including plagiarism and originality, the importance of developing skills in critique, and the influence of current university research environments on postgraduate legal research. Law students and members of the practising profession aiming to update their research, knowledge and skills will find Researching and Writing in Law, 3rd Edition invaluable.

Author : Frans L. Leeuw,Hans Schmeets
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,5 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 : Mike McConville
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,5 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 : Lee Epstein,Andrew D. Martin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 54,6 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 : Laura Cahillane,Jennifer Schweppe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Legal research
ISBN : 1911611119

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Case Studies in Legal Research Methodologies by Laura Cahillane,Jennifer Schweppe Pdf

"This collection is a follow-on to Legal Research Methods: Principles and Practicalities"--Preface.

Author : Rattan Singh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8180388972

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Legal Research Methodology by Rattan Singh Pdf