scholarly journals Improving the Credibility of Empirical Legal Research: Practical Suggestions for Researchers, Journals, and Law Schools

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn Zeiler ◽  
David Mellor ◽  
Justin Pickett ◽  
Crystal Steltenpohl ◽  
Jason M. Chin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Law Schools ◽  
Legal Research

scholarly journals MAPPING LEGAL RESEARCH

2012 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 651-676 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathias M. Siems ◽  
Daithí Mac Síthigh
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
General Result ◽  
Law Schools ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
The Us ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Relationship

This article aims to map the position of academic legal research, using a distinction between “law as a practical discipline”, “law as humanities” and “law as social sciences” as a conceptual framework. Having explained this framework, we address both the “macro” and “micro” level of legal research in the UK. For this purpose, we have collected information on the position of all law schools within the structure of their respective universities. We also introduce “ternary plots” as a new way of explaining individual research preferences. Our general result is that all three categories play a role within the context of UK legal academia, though the relationship between the “macro” and the “micro” level is not always straight-forward. We also provide comparisons with the US and Germany and show that in all three countries law as an academic tradition has been constantly evolving, raising questions such as whether the UK could or should move further to a social science model already dominant in the US.

Teaching Legal Research in Canadian Law Schools: Are We Meeting the Needs of the Profession?

2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 98-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Eaton
Keyword(s):  
Education System ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Hard Copy ◽  
Law Schools ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
Research Skills ◽  
Canadian Law ◽  
University Of Manitoba ◽  
The University ◽  
Electronic Sources

AbstractIn this philosophical article John Eaton from the University of Manitoba recounts the current legal education system in Canada and reflects on the issues involved in teaching legal research skills, including problems with where to base the training within the curriculum, and difficulties encountered in the migration from hard copy research, to current students' predilections for using electronic sources. Whilst based on the Canadian process his article has a wider application in relation to the “Google-generation” of students.

How Much “Law” in Legal Studies? Approaches to Teaching Legal Research and Doctrinal Analysis in a Legal Studies Program

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (03) ◽  
pp. 297-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincent Kazmierski
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Multiple Roles ◽  
Methods Course ◽  
Law Schools ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
Pedagogical Strategies ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
Professional Law

Abstract This article addresses the teaching of legal research methods and doctrinal analysis within a legal studies program. I argue that learning about legal research and doctrinal analysis is an important element of legal education outside professional law schools. I start by considering the ongoing debate concerning the role of legal education both inside and outside professional law schools. I then describe the way in which the research methods courses offered by the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University attempt to reconcile the tension between “law” and legal studies. In particular, I focus on how the second-year research methods course introduces students to “traditional” legal research and doctrinal analysis within a legal studies context by deploying a number of pedagogical strategies. In so doing, the course provides students with an important foundation that allows them to embrace the multiple roles of legal education outside professional law schools.

scholarly journals Improving the credibility of empirical legal research: practical suggestions for researchers, journals, and law schools

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Chin ◽  
Alexander Carl DeHaven ◽  
Tobias Heycke ◽  
Alex O. Holcombe ◽  
David Thomas Mellor ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Qualitative Studies ◽  
Incentive Systems ◽  
Law Schools ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
Legal Studies

Fields closely related to empirical legal research are enhancing their methods to improve the credibility of their findings. This includes making data, analysis code, and other materials openly available, and preregistering studies. Empirical legal research appears to be lagging behind other fields. This may be due, in part, to a lack of meta-research and guidance on empirical legal studies. The authors seek to fill that gap by evaluating some indicators of credibility in empirical legal research, including a review of guidelines at legal journals. They then provide both general recommendations for researchers, and more specific recommendations aimed at three commonly used empirical legal methods: case law analysis, surveys, and qualitative studies. They end with suggestions for policies and incentive systems that may be implemented by journals and law schools.

The Challenges of Teaching Comparative Law and Socio-Legal Studies at Indonesia's Law Schools

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (S1) ◽  
pp. S229-S244
Author(s):  
Herlambang P WIRATRAMAN
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Comparative Law ◽  
Law Schools ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approaches ◽  
Source Materials

AbstractThis article addresses the role of legal research methodologies in the development of legal science and the creation of social change in Indonesia. Based on fieldwork conducted at Indonesian law schools between 2014 and 2016, this article reveals that legal research methods taught in Indonesia are starkly divided into normative-juridical and empirical-juridical approaches. Misunderstandings between adherents of these different schools of thought pose significant obstacles to the development of interdisciplinary approaches to law that span or go beyond the divide. Methodological conflicts resulting in the absence of socio-legal approaches in Indonesian law schools, coupled with outdated and limited source materials, limit the study of comparative law in Indonesia to the mere comparison of statutes and rules shorn of socio-political context. They also fail to instill awareness of the importance of considering social – on top of legal – impact in the context of Indonesia's complex and pluralist legal system.

Scientific research work in jurisprudence: a training manual

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikhail Osipov
Keyword(s):  
Research Work ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Training Manual ◽  
Legal Practice ◽  
Law Schools ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
Scientific Research Work ◽  
Master's Thesis ◽  
Conducting Research

The proposed study guide is devoted to the implementation of scientific legal activity and the preparation of a master's thesis in legal sciences. Particular attention in the manual is paid to such aspects of scientific research in the field of jurisprudence as the methodology of legal research, planning of scientific research, compiling a review of the literature on the topic of the dissertation. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of the problems of legal regulation, as well as to the features of the analysis of legal practice, which is necessary for performing legal research. For undergraduates and graduate students of law schools and faculties, as well as for all those who are interested in the problems of conducting research in the field of jurisprudence.

Information Literacy in Law: Starting Points for Improving Legal Research Competencies

2010 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 339-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Blair Kauffman
Keyword(s):  
Information Literacy ◽  
Potential Application ◽  
General Public ◽  
Law School ◽  
Law Students ◽  
Law Schools ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
Research Support ◽  
Research Competencies ◽  
International Environment

AbstractImproving information literacy in law translates into developing methods for improving legal research competencies among lawyers, law students and the general public. This paper summarizes four approaches for improving legal research skills of prospective lawyers in U.S. law schools and discusses their successes and shortcomings to help assess their potential application in an international environment. These approaches include: (1) offering mandatory law school courses in legal research; (2) adding elective (or optional) credit based courses in legal research; (3) offering non-credit legal research support to law students at their point of need; and (4) testing prospective lawyers on their legal research competencies as a requirement to being licensed to practice law.

The Future of Legal Research

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 314-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Bell
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Publishing Industry ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
Publicly Funded ◽  
Law Schools ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
Access Policy ◽  
Funded Research ◽  
Subsequent Response ◽  
The Government

AbstractThis article is based on a presentation given by John Bell at the annual conference of The Society of Legal Scholars (SLS)1 held in Bristol in September 2012. His talk reflects the immediate challenges facing law schools, academic lawyers and the legal publishing industry in the light of the recent Finch Report2 and the subsequent response by the Government3 whereby it has adopted an open access policy to publicly funded research.

scholarly journals Improving the Credibility of Empirical Legal Research: Practical Suggestions for Researchers, Journals and Law Schools

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Chin ◽  
Alexander C DeHaven ◽  
Tobias Heycke ◽  
Alexander O Holcombe ◽  
David T Mellor ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Law Schools ◽  
Legal Research
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