Research methods in law / edited by Dawn Watkins and Mandy Burton.

"Explaining in clear terms some of the main methodological approaches to legal research, the chapters in this edited collection are written by specialists in their fields, researching in a variety of jurisdictions. Covering a range of topics from feminist approaches to law and economics, each c...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: Watkins, Dawn (Editor), Burton, Mandy (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.
Edition:Second edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Doctrinal research : researching the jury / Terry Hutchinson
  • Socio-legal studies : a challenge to the doctrinal approach / Fiona Cownie and Anthony Bradney
  • Doing empirical research : exploring the decision-making of magistrates and juries / Mandy Burton
  • Legal research in the humanities / Steven Cammiss and Dawn Watkins
  • Legal history / Philip Handler
  • Comparative law and its methodology / Geoffrey Samuel
  • Critical legal 'method' as attitude / Panu Minkkinen
  • Economic analysis of law, or economically informed legal research / Albert Sanchez-Graells
  • The masters' tools? : a feminist approach to legal and lay decision-making / Vanessa E. Munro
  • Law and anthropology : legal pluralism and 'lay' decision-making / Anthony Good.