Research methods for law / edited by Mike McConville and Wing Hong Chui.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McConville, Michael.

Chui, Wing Hong.

Series:

Research methods for the arts and humanities.

Research methods for the arts and humanities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Legal research.

Law--Research.

Law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2007.

Summary:

Research Methods for Law introduces undergraduate and postgraduate students to available methods of research - legalistic, empirical, comparative and theoretical - drawing on actual research projects as examples. The book is written by a team of contributors with a broad range of teaching and research experience in law, criminal justice and socio-legal studies. Designed to serve as a handbook for research methods courses with its coverage of the principal research traditions, the book will also appeal to students of related disciplines who have an interest in legal issues including those from

Contents:

COPYRIGHT; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction and Overview; Chapter 1 Qualitative Legal Research; Chapter 2 Quantitative Legal Research; Chapter 3 Doing Ethnographic Research: Lessons from a Case Study; Chapter 4 Comparative Legal Scholarship; Chapter 5 Integrating Theory and Method in the Comparative Contextual Analysis of Trial Process; Chapter 6 Researching the Landless Movement in Brazil; Chapter 7 Non-empirical Discovery in Legal Scholarship - Choosing, Researching and Writing a Traditional Scholarly Article; Chapter 8 Researching International Law

Chapter 9 Development of Empirical Techniques and TheoryNotes on Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786610953165

9781280953163

1280953160

9780748633593

0748633596

OCLC:

476101741