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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McConville, Michael, editor.

Chui, Wing Hong, editor.

Series:

Research methods for the arts and humanities.

Research methods for the arts and humanities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Research.

Law.

Legal research.

Legal research--Methodology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 316 pages) : illustrations, tables.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh Univ. P., 2017.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

1. Legal research as qualitative research

2. Quantitative legal research

3. Doing ethnographic research: lessons from a case study

4. Interdisciplinarity in legal research

5. Integrating theory and method in the comparative contextual analysis of trial process

6. Comparative legal scholarship

7. Research ethics and integrity in socio-legal studies and legal research

8. Researching the landless movement in Brazil

9. Rejecting the dominance of empirical legal scholarship - a better way of choosing, researching and writing a scholarly article

10. Researching international law

11. Development of empirical techniques and theory.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

First ed. published in 2007.

ISBN:

9781474404259

1474404251

9781474403221

1474403220