Methodologies of legal research : which kind of method for what kind of discipline? / edited by Mark van Hoecke.

Until quite recently questions about methodology in legal research have been largely confined to understanding the role of doctrinal research as a scholarly discipline. In turn this has involved asking questions not only about coverage but, fundamentally, questions about the identity of the discipli...

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Online Access: Full Text (via EBSCO)
Other Authors: Hoecke, Mark van
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart Pub., ©2011.
Series:European Academy of Legal Theory series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Legal doctrine : which method(s) for what kind of discipline? / Mark van Hoecke
  • The method of a truly normative legal science / Jaap Hage
  • Explanatory non-normative legal doctrine : taking the distinction between theoretical and practical reason seriously / Anne Ruth Mackor
  • A world without law professors / Mathias M. Siems
  • Open or autonomous? : the debate on legal methodology as a reflection of the debate on law / Pauline C. Westermman
  • Methodology of legal doctrinal research : a comment on Westerman / Jan Vranken
  • The epistemological function of "la doctrine" / Horatia Muir Watt
  • Maps, methodologies and critiques : confessions of a contract lawyer / Roger Brownsword
  • Legal research and the distinctiveness of comparative law / John Bell
  • Does one need an understanding of methodology in law before one can understand methodology in comparative law? / Geoffrey Samuel
  • Comparative law, legal linguistics and methodology of legal doctrine / Jaakko Husa
  • Doing what doesn't come naturally : on the distinctiveness of comparative law / Maurice Adams
  • Promises and pitfalls of interdisciplinary legal research : the case of evolutionary analysis in law / Bart Du Laing
  • Behavioural economics and legal research / Julie De Coninck
  • Theory and objection in law : the case for legal scholarship as indirect speech / Bert Van Roermund.