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Legal pluralism, social theory, and the state Open
Legal pluralism has seen a marked rise in interest since the turn of the century. While long rejected in legal studies, legal pluralism is now widely accepted, not least in light of the broad range of perspectives on the state it has sough…
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Normative and Empirical Research Methods: Their Usefulness and Relevance in the Study of Law as an Object Open
Legal research is either normative or empirical. The results of normative law research are prescriptive in nature: the norms provide a prescription as to how one should behave in accordance with the norms. Normative legal research involves…
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Comparative Legal Research and Legal Culture: Facts, Approaches, and Values Open
This article seeks to provide an overview of how the controversial concept of legal culture has been used so as to clarify its potential role in further developing comparative studies of law in society. It shows that the term is currently …
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Lenses of Legal Research: A Descriptive Essay on Legal Research Methodologies Open
The problem faced by researchers and scholars, especially students, is finding the right reasons for choosing legal research methods. For this reason, this article was created to make it easier for scholars to choose the right legal resear…
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The Critical Legal Studies Movement: Another Time, A Greater Task Open
"The civil rights and feminist movements of the sixties did not leave legal theory untouched. Over the following two decades, the critical legal studies movement...led by the Brazilian philosopher, social theorist and politician Roberto Un…
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Normative Legal Research in Indonesia: Its Originis and Approaches Open
The legal research method is one of the academic fields that continues to generate debate among law students and law colleges in Indonesia. This debate is important because the research method is a means for a legal scholar to obtain the t…
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Computer-Assisted Legal Linguistics: Corpus Analysis as a New Tool for Legal Studies Open
Law exists solely in and through language. Nonetheless, systematical empirical analysis of legal language has been rare. Yet, the tides are turning: After judges at various courts (including the US Supreme Court) have championed a method o…
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Law as computation in the era of artificial legal intelligence: Speaking law to the power of statistics Open
The idea of artificial legal intelligence stems from a previous wave of artificial intelligence, then called jurimetrics. It was based on an algorithmic understanding of law, celebrating logic as the sole ingredient for proper legal argume…
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Legal Control of Marginal Groups Open
The legal control of marginal groups is a central topic in social scientific and legal scholarship. Examining the most influential research produced over the past two decades, as well as a broad collection of foundational and exemplary tex…
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Theorizing Transnational Legal Ordering Open
This article categorizes three approaches to theorizing transnational legal ordering that respectively address private legal ordering; provide a framework for the study of the interaction of lawmaking and practice at the transnational, nat…
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Legal Research Methodology Reposition in Research on Social Science Open
A legal researcher must see that research is an activity. The research is not only reading books, principles, doctrines, and regulations but also an activity to find data. Legal research should no longer distinguish between normative resea…
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Measuring, Monitoring, and Managing Legal Complexity Open
Application of cold shock or tungstate to butterfly pupae produces a unique color-pattern modification type on the adult wings, in which the color-pattern elements are dislocated toward the reduced focal elements. This modification-inducin…
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Theoretical and Normative Frameworks for Legal Research: Putting Theory into Practice Open
Theoretical and Normative Frameworks for Legal Research: Putting Theory into Practice Legal doctrinal scholarship engages with the problems of legal practice: it systematizes, comments on, evaluates and debates what goes on in law. These a…
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The Value of Systematic Content Analysis in Legal Research Open
In ignoring the overall debate regarding the need to incorporate empirical research methods in legal scholarship, this article explores the utility of applying a particular method, namely, systematic content analysis (SCA), as a complement…
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International Law in National Legal Systems: An Empirical Investigation Open
International legal scholars have long recognized the importance of the rules and processes by which states adhere to international legal obligations and “translate” them into their domestic legal systems. Research by political scientists …
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Expounding the Place of Legal Doctrinal Methods in Legal-Interdisciplinary Research Open
Expounding the Place of Legal Doctrinal Methods in Legal-Interdisciplinary Research There is a distinct place for legal doctrinal methods in legal-interdisciplinary research methodologies, but there is value to be had in expounding that pl…
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EditorialMethodology of Legal Research: Challenges and Opportunities Open
The position of legal studies has increasingly become part of a debate among legal scholars and their university colleagues in disciplines like economics, sociology, political sciences, psychology, history and linguistics. This shift has g…
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Legal Research and the Social Sciences Open
Four overlapping research agendas form the bulk of current academic legal scholarship in Britain. First, the understanding and internal coherence of legal concepts and legal reasoning, how legal concepts fit together, the consistency of th…
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Convergence, Legal Origins, and Transplants in Comparative Corporate Law: A Case-Based and Quantitative Analysis Open
In this Article, the authors intend to fill a gap in the comparative law literature by adopting a case-based approach to comparative corporate law that highlights the important dimension of specific cases in corporate law matters and how i…
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International law and its histories:methodological risks and opportunities Open
The history of international law has recently come to the forefront of legal debates. Defined as the field of study that examines the evolution of public international law investigating state practice, the development of given legal concep…
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Trespassing on the Law: Critical legal engineering as a strategy for action research Open
This paper proposes critical legal engineering (CLE) as a new methodology for legal‐geographic action research. While legal geography is on the rise, geographers rarely participate in legal or judicial process, and when they do – for examp…
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Computational Methods in Legal Analysis Open
The digitization of legal texts and advances in artificial intelligence, natural language processing, text mining, network analysis, and machine learning have led to new forms of legal analysis by lawyers and law scholars. This article pro…
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Exploring the ‘Legal’ in Socio-Legal Studies Open
Socio-legal studies have had an ambivalent relationship with the 'legal' – one of its defining aspects, but at the same time one that the discipline has sought to transcend or even leave behind. While
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Methodology in Legal Research Open
Recent legal scholarship demonstrates increased attention to empirical research in the design and evaluation of law and the policies and practices of legal authorities. The growth of evidence informed law is an exciting development and one…
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Legal Technology for Law Firms: Determining Roadmaps for Innovation Open
The business model of many law firms, as legal professions on the whole, will be facing a considerable paradigm change since the work provided by law firms in the form of billable hours, in fact, largely consists of services which do not r…
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Legal Technologies in Action: The Future of the Legal Market in Light of Disruptive Innovations Open
Legal technologies (digital solutions to providing legal services) have turned into the essential element of competition among legal-market stakeholders. This study highlights the competitive superiority of legal services based on the conc…
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Legal Research of Doctrinal and Non-Doctrinal Open
This paper discussed doctrinal and non-doctrinal legal research to show researchers how to write with understanding regarding the advantages, disadvantages, and the comparisons between doctrinal and non-doctrinal legal research. Thus, the …
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Law and Speed: Asylum Appeals and the Techniques and Consequences of Legal Quickening Open
This article examines how a politics of speed is manifest in a legal context via a detailed ethnography of the French National Court of Asylum (CNDA). It identifies the temporal, spatial, and organizational ordering techniques that charact…
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Do Legal Origins Predict Legal Substance? Open
There is a large body of research in economics and law suggesting that the legal origin of a country – that is, whether its legal regime is based on English common law or French, German, or Nordic civil law – profoundly impacts a range of …
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Empirical Legal Research: The Gap between Facts and Values and Legal Academic Training Open
While traditional legal scholarship is under pressure and debates are taking place on the aims and methods of the academic study of law, at the same time empirical legal research is blossoming if not booming. The more empirical legal resea…