Methodologies of legal research
edited by Mark Van Hoecke.
- U. K. : Hart publishing, 2013.
- 294 p.
- (European Academy of Legal Theory series) .
Table of contents: Chapter 1. Legal doctrine : which method(s) for what kind of discipline? Chapter 2. The method of a truly normative legal science Chapter 3. Explanatory non-normative legal doctrine : taking the distinction between theoretical and practical reason seriously Chapter 4. A world without law professors Chapter 5. Open or autonomous? : the debate on legal methodology as a reflection of the debate on law Chapter 6. Methodology of legal doctrinal research : a comment on Westerman Chapter 7. The epistemological function of "la doctrine" Chapter 8. Maps, methodologies and critiques : confessions of a contract lawyer Chapter 9. Legal research and the distinctiveness of comparative law Chapter 10. Does one need an understanding of methodology in law before one can understand methodology in comparative law? Chapter 11. Comparative law, legal linguistics and methodology of legal doctrine Chapter 12. Doing what doesn't come naturally : on the distinctiveness of comparative law Chapter 13. Promises and pitfalls of interdisciplinary legal research : the case of evolutionary analysis in law Chapter 14. Behavioural economics and legal research Chapter 15. Theory and objection in law : the case for legal scholarship as indirect speech