Research methods in law / edited by Dawn Watkins and Mandy Burton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Watkins, Dawn, editor.

Burton, Mandy, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Legal research.

Physical Description:

ix, 247 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.

Summary:

"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."-- Publisher's website.

Contents:

Introduction

Doctrinal research : researching the jury / Terry Hutchinson

Socio-legal studies : a challenge to the doctrinal approach / Fiona Cownie and Anthony Bradney

Doing empirical research : exploring the decision-making of magistrates and juries / Mandy Burton

Legal research in the humanities / Steven Cammiss and Dawn Watkins

Legal history / Philip Handler

Comparative law and its methodology / Geoffrey Samuel

Critical legal 'method' as attitude / Panu Minkkinen

Economic analysis of law, or economically informed legal research / Albert Sanchez-Graells

The masters' tools? : a feminist approach to legal and lay decision-making / Vanessa E. Munro

Law and anthropology : legal pluralism and 'lay' decision-making / Anthony Good.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138230187

1138230189

9781138230194

1138230197

OCLC:

971130540