Conducting law and society research : reflections on methods and practices / Simon Halliday, Patrick Schmidt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Halliday, Simon, 1966- author.

Schmidt, Patrick D. (Patrick Delbert), 1971- author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in law and society.

Cambridge studies in law and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Legal research.

Law--Methodology.

Law.

Social sciences--Research--Law and legislation.

Social sciences.

Sociological jurisprudence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 288 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Conducting Law & Society Research

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Through interviews with many of the most noteworthy authors in law and society, Conducting Law and Society Research takes students and scholars behind the scenes of empirical scholarship, showing the messy reality of research methods. The challenges and the uncertainties, so often missing from research methods textbooks, are revealed in candid detail. These accessible and revealing conversations about the lived reality of classic projects will be a source of encouragement and inspiration to those embarking on empirical research, ranging across the full array of disciplines that contribute to law and society. For all of the ambiguities and challenges to the social 'scientific' study of law, the reflections found in this book - collectively capturing a portrait of the field through the window of the research efforts - individually remind readers that 'good research' displays not an absence of problems, but the care taken in negotiating them.

Contents:

Introduction : beyond methods : law and society in action

Stewart Macaulay and "Non-Contractual relations in business"

Robert Kagan and Regulatory justice

Malcolm Feeley and the process is the punishment

Lawrence Friedman and the roots of justice

John Heinz and Edward Laumann and Chicago lawyers

Alan Paterson and the law lords

David Engel and "The oven bird's song"

Keith Hawkins and environment and enforcement

Carol Greenhouse and praying for justice

John Conley and William O'Barr and rules versus relationships

Sally Engle Merry and getting justice and getting even

Tom Tyler and why people obey the law

Doreen McBarnet and "Whiter than white collar crime"

Gerald Rosenberg and the hollow hope

Michael McCann and rights at work

Austin Sarat and William Felstiner and divorce lawyers and their clients

Yves Dezalay and Bryant Garth and dealing in virtue

Patricia Ewick and Susan Silbey and the common place of law

Hazel Genn and paths to justice

John Braithwaite and Peter Drahos and global business regulation

John Hagan and justice in the Balkans

Conclusion : "Research is a messy business" : an archeology of the craft of sociological research.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-20157-8

0-521-72042-7

0-511-64676-3

1-282-39117-8

9786612391170

0-511-65084-1

0-511-53936-3

0-511-53853-7

0-511-54020-5

OCLC:

609840557