Research Methods in Law

Herausgeber: Watkins, Dawn; Burton, Mandy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explaining in clear terms some of the main methodological approaches to legal research, Research Methods in Law is written by specialists in their fields, researching in a variety of jurisdictions and covering a range of topics, including feminist approaches, economic analysis of the law and socio-legal studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• 3. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• Gewicht: 700g
• ISBN-13: 9781032710358
• ISBN-10: 1032710357
• Artikelnr.: 74264044

Autorenporträt

Dawn Watkins is Professor of Law at the University of Sheffield. Mandy Burton is Professor of Law at Loughborough University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Doctrinal research Researching 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. Biographical approaches: Using life writing as a research method
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 anthropolpgy: legal pluralism and 'lay' decision making
11. Creative Approaches
12. Critical legal 'method' as attitude