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Methodologies of Legal Research: Which Kind of Method for What Kind of Discipline?

Methodologies of Legal Research: Which Kind of Method for What Kind of Discipline?

Paperback

Series: European Academy of Legal Theory, Book 9

General Law

ISBN10: 1849464995
ISBN13: 9781849464994
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: May 23 2013
Pages: 310
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.66 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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 discipline. Is it (mainly) descriptive, hermeneutical, or normative? Should it also be explanatory? Legal scholarship has been torn between, on the one hand, grasping the expanding reality of law and its context, and, on the other, reducing this complex whole to manageable proportions. The purely internal analysis of a legal system, isolated from any societal context, remains an option, and is still seen in the approach of the French academy, but as law aims at ordering society and influencing human behaviour, this approach is felt by many scholars to be insufficient.

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