Research Methods for Law

ISBN-13: 9781474403214 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 336 str.

9781474403214 McConville; Wing Hong Chui

Opis

Drawing on actual research projects, Research Methods for Law discusses how legal research as process impacts on research as product. The author team has a broad range of teaching and research experience in law, criminal justice and socio-legal studies, and give examples from real-life research products to illustrate the theory.

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List of Figures and Tables; Preface and Acknowledgements to Second Edition; Preface and Acknowledgements to First Edition; Introduction and Overview, Mike McConville and Wing Hong Chui; 1. Legal Research as Qualitative research, Ian Dobinson and Francis Johns; 2. Qualitative Legal Research, Wing Hong Chui, 3. Doing Ethnographic Research: Lessons from a Case Study, Satnam Choongh; 4. Interdisciplinarity in Legal Research, Paul Roberts; 5. Integrating Theory and Method in the Comparative Contextual Analysis of Trial Process, Mark Findlay and Ralph Henham; 6. Comparative Legal Scholarship, Geoffrey Wilson; 7. Research Ethics and Integrity in Socio-Legal Studies and Legal Research, Mark Israel; 8. Researching the Landless Movement in Brazil, George Meszaros; 9. Rejecting the Dominance of Empirical Legal Scholarship – A Better Way of Choosing, Researching and Writing a Scholarly Article, Michael Pendleton; 10. Researching International Law, Stephen Hall; 11. Development of Empirical Techniques and Theory, Mike McConville; Notes on Contributors; Index.