Includes bibliographical references and index.

Doctrinal research Researching Jury / Terry Hutchinson -- Socio-legal studies : A challenge to the doctrinal approach / Fiona Cowie 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 -- Biographical approaches : Using life writing as a research method / Fiona Cownie and Mandy Burton -- Economic analysis of law, or economically informed legal research / Albert Sanchez-Graells -- The Master's Tools? A Feminist Approach to Legal and Lay Decision-Making / Vanessa E Munro -- Law and anthropolpgy : legal pluralism and 'lay' decision making / Anthony Good -- Creative Approaches / Dawn Watkins -- Critical legal 'method' as attitude / Panu Minkkinen.

"Explaining in clear terms some of the main methodological approaches to legal research, Research Methods in Law is written by specialists in their fields, researching in a variety of jurisdictions. Covering a range of topics, including feminist approaches, economic analysis of the law and socio-legal studies, each contributor addresses the topic of 'lay decision makers in the legal system' from their particular methodological perspective. This focus on one main topic allows the reader to draw comparisons between methods with relative ease. This third edition has been fully updated, and includes bullet point summaries at the start of each chapter. There are also two new chapters covering biographical approaches and creative approaches. 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"-- Provided by publisher.

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