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

by Mark van Hoecke

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1849464995
• ISBN13: 9781849464994
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"