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

Prelims -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- 1 Legal Doctrine: Which Method(s) for What Kind of Discipline? -- 2 The Method of a Truly Normative Legal Science -- 3 Explanatory Non-Normative Legal Doctrine.Taking the Distinction between Theoretical and Practical Reason Seriously -- 4 A World without Law Professors -- 5 Open or Autonomous? The Debate on Legal Methodology as a Reflection of the Debate on Law -- 6 Methodology of Legal Doctrinal Research: A Comment on Westerman -- 7 The Epistemological Function of 'la Doctrine' -- 8 Maps, Methodologies, and Critiques: Confessions of a Contract Lawyer -- 9 Legal Research and the Distinctiveness of Comparative Law -- 10 Does One Need an Understanding of Methodology in Law Before One Can Understand Methodology in Comparative Law? -- 11 Comparative Law, Legal Linguistics and Methodology of Legal Doctrine -- 12 Doing What Doesn't Come Naturally. On the Distinctiveness of Comparative Law -- 13 Promises and Pitfalls of Interdisciplinary Legal Research: The Case of Evolutionary Analysis in Law -- 14 Behavioural Economics and Legal Research -- 15 Theory and Object in Law: the Case for Legal Scholarship as Indirect Speech -- Index.

This book explores questions about the coverage and identity of legal research in terms of its expansion to an interdisciplinary field.

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