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

Contributor(s):

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018Edition: Second editionDescription: ix, 247 pages ; 25 cmISBN:

9781138230194 (pbk)

Subject(s):

Legal research

DDC classification:

340.072 WAT 23

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.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	Moylish Library Main Collection	340.072 WAT (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		39002100605550
Standard Loan	Moylish Library Main Collection	340.072 WAT (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		39002100605543

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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 contributor addresses the topic of 'lay decision makers in the legal system' from their particular methodological perspective, explaining how they would approach the issue and discussing the suitability of their particular method. This focus on one main topic allows the reader to draw comparisons between methods with relative ease.

The broad range of contributors makes Research Methods in Law well suited to an international audience, and it is ideal reading for PhD students in law, undergraduate dissertation students in law, LL.M Research students and early year researchers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

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.