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

    Contributor(s): Watkins, Dawn (Dawn Elizabeth) [editor.] | Burton, Mandy [editor.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018Edition: Second editionDescription: ix, 247 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781138230187; 1138230189; 9781138230194; 1138230197Subject(s): Legal research | Law | Legal research | Aufsatzsammlung | Forschungsmethode | Rechtswissenschaft | Law | 86.03 theory and methodology of lawDDC classification: 340.072 LOC classification: K85 | .R47 2018
    Contents:
    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.
    Action note: Legacy 2017Summary: "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."-- Publisher's website.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.

    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.

    "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."-- Publisher's website.

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