Research Methods for Law
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Research Methods for Law

Mike McConville, Wing Hong (Eric) Chui

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Mike McConville, Wing Hong (Eric) Chui

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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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Publisher
EUP
Year
2017
ISBN
9781474404259
Edition
2
Topic
Jura
Subtopic
Rechtserziehung
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.
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