Research Methods in Law

Designed for use by post-graduate students in law and legal studies this book provides a useful and critically rigorous introduction to the different research methodologies available to the student. The book gives students who are setting out on a project or dissertation a firm grounding on which they can base their research.

Auteur

Dawn Watkins is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Leicester.

Mandy Burton is Professor of Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Leicester.

Contenu

1. Doctrinal Research 2. Socio-legal studies 3. Doing empirical research 4. Legal research in the humanities 5. Legal History 6. Comparative law and its methodology 7. Critical legal 'method' as attitude 8. Economic analysis of law, or economically-informed legal research 9. The Master's Tools? A Feminist Approach to Legal and Lay Decision-Making 10. Law and anthropology: legal pluralism and 'lay' decision-making