Empirical legal research : a guidance book for lawyers, legislators and regulators / Frans L. Leeuw, Professor of Law, Public Policy and Social Science Research, Maastricht University, Faculty of Law and Director, Security and Justice Research Center (WODC), the Hague, the Netherlands ; with Hans Schmeets, Professor in Social Statistics, Maastricht University and Senior Researcher Statistics, Netherlands, the Netherlands.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leeuw, Frans L., author.

Schmeets, J. J. G., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Legal research--Methodology.

Legal research.

Empiricism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 319 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, United Kingdom ; Northampton, Massachusetts : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2016]

Summary:

Empirical Legal Research describes how to investigate the roles of legislation, regulation, legal policies and other legal arrangements at play in society. It is invaluable as a guide to legal scholars, practitioners and students on how to do empirical legal research, covering history, methods, evidence, growth of knowledge and links with normativity. This multidisciplinary approach combines insights and approaches from different social sciences, evaluation studies, Big Data analytics and empirically informed ethics. The book discusses the tensions between the normative character of law and legal issues and the descriptive and causal character of empirical legal research, and suggests ways to help handle this seeming disconnect.--publisher.

Contents:

Introducing empirical legal research and structure of the book

Roots of empirical legal research : a concise history in 20 1/4 pages

Research problems

Theories and empirical legal research

Research reviews and syntheses

Research designs : raisons d'être, examples and criteria

Data collection methods

Analyzing and visualizing quantitative and qualitative data

Transferring research results to legal professionals, utilization and the fact-value dichotomy

Empirical legal research : booming business and growth of knowledge?

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78254-941-2