Research Methods for Law

✍ Scribed by Mike McConville; Wing Hong (Eric) Chui (editors)

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 328
• Series: Research Methods for the Arts and Humanities
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Introduces students to legalistic, theoretical, empirical, comparative and cross-disciplinary research methods, grounded in working examples

New for this edition

• New chapter on inter- and cross-disciplinary research – essential reading for international students and students with a non-law first degree undertaking research in the areas of law, criminology, psychology and sociology
• Research ethics has been expanded to a full chapter that includes current plagiarism and imperfect disclosure
• Brings existing chapters up to date with the newest thinking in legal research

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Preface and Acknowledgements to Second Edition
Preface and Acknowledgements to First Edition
Introduction and Overview
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 on Contributors
Index