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Research Methods for Law
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Introduces students to legalistic, theoretical, empirical, comparative and cross-disciplinary research methods, grounded in working examples.
Drawing 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.
New for this edition: a new 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 sociology; research ethics has been expanded to a full chapter that includes current plagiarism and imperfect disclosure; existing chapters have been brought up-to-date with the newest thinking in legal research.
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chapter
1
Legal
Research
as
Qualitative
Research
Ian
Dobinson
and
Francis
Johns
IntrodUctIon
I
n
2002
two
eminent
social
scientists,
Lee
Epstein
and
Gary
King,
asserted
that:
Although
the
term
‘empirical
research’
has
become
commonplace
in
legal
scholarship
over
the
past
two
decades,
law
professors
.
.
.
appear
to
have
been
proceeding
with
little
awareness
of,
much
less
compliance
with,
many
of
the
rules
of
inference,
and
without
paying
heed
to
the
key
lessons
of
the
revolution
in
empirical
analysis
that
has
been
taking
place
over
the
last
century
in
other
disciplines.
1
The
researchers
had
analysed
all
American
law
review
articles
published
between
1990
and
2000
which
had
the
word
‘empirical’
in
the
title.
The
con-
clusions,
they
said,
were
discouraging,
with
every
single
one
breaching
what
they
contended
were
basic
rules
of
empirical
research.
2
One
law
professor,
whose
research
had
been
specifically
criticised
by
the
social
scientists,
responded
by
saying
that:
Epstein
and
King
state
in
no
uncertain
terms
that
empirical
legal
scholarship
is
wholly
unconcerned
with
questions
of
methodology,
and
that
no
law
review
article
–
not
a
single
one
–
is
concerned
with
‘understanding,
explicating,
or
adapting
the
rules
of
inference.’
Perhaps
not
surprisingly,
given
the
sweeping
and
incautious
nature
of
their
claim,
the
authors
are
simply
wrong.
3
Table of contents
- Title page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Tables and Figures
- Preface and Acknowledgements to Second Edition
- Preface and Acknowledgements to First Edition
- Introduction and Overview
- CHAPTER 1 Legal Research as Qualitative Research
- CHAPTER 2 Quantitative Legal Research
- CHAPTER 3 Doing Ethnographic Research: Lessons from a Case Study
- CHAPTER 4 Interdisciplinarity in Legal Research
- CHAPTER 5 Integrating Theory and Method in the Comparative Contextual Analysis of Trial Process
- CHAPTER 6 Comparative Legal Scholarship
- CHAPTER 7 Research Ethics and Integrity in Socio-legal Studies and Legal Research
- CHAPTER 8 Researching the Landless Movement in Brazil
- CHAPTER 9 Rejecting the Dominance of Empirical Legal Scholarship - A Better Way of Choosing, Researching and Writing a Scholarly Article
- CHAPTER 10 Researching International Law
- CHAPTER 11 Development of Empirical Techniques and Theory
- Notes on Contributors
- Index