Explaining in clear terms some of the main methodological approaches to legal research, the chapters in this edited collection are written by specialists in their fields, researching in a variety of jurisdictions.

Covering a range of topics from Feminist Approaches to Law and Economics, each contributor addresses the topic of 'lay decision makers in the legal system' from their particular methodological perspective, explaining how they would approach the issue and discussing the suitability of their particular method. This focus on one main topic allows the reader to draw comparisons between methods with relative ease.

The broad range of contributors makes Research Methods in Law well suited to an international audience, and it is ideal reading for PhD students in law, undergraduate dissertation students in law, LL.M Research students and early year researchers.

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Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Doctrinal research: Researching the jury
2 Socio-legal studies: A challenge to the doctrinal approach
3 Doing empirical research: Exploring the decision-making of magistrates and juries
4 Legal research in the humanities
5 Legal history
6 Comparative law and its methodology
7 Critical legal ‘method’ as attitude
8 Economic analysis of law, or economically informed legal research
9 The master’s tools? A feminist approach to legal and lay decision-making
10 Law and anthropology: Legal pluralism and ‘lay’ decision-making
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