Theory and Method in Socio-Legal Research

By: Reza Banakar (Editor), David Nelken (Editor), Max Travers (Editor)

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Paperback | 19 December 2005 | Edition Number 1

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Socio-legal researchers increasingly recognise the need to employ a wide variety of methods in studying law and legal phenomena, and that this needs to be informed by an understanding of debates about theory and method in mainstream social science. This collection publishes papers from a workshop held at the Oñati Institute for Sociology of Law in which researchers from several countries explored these issues. They illustrate how a range of topics, including EU law, ombudsmen, judges, lawyers, Shariah Councils and the quality assurance industry can be researched from a socio-legal perspective. The objective of the collection is not, however, simply to present an interesting set of papers, but to use them to explore how different methods can be used in researching law and legal phenomena, and how methodological issues and debates in sociology are relevant to the study of law. A central theme is the debate between structural" and "action" traditions in researching law. The collection also approaches the methodological problem of how sociology of law can address the content of legal practice as a lawyer understands this from a variety of perspectives. There is also discussion of the relationship between pure and applied research. The editors have provided a critical introduction to each of the six sections and a general introduction on law sociology and method. The collection will provide an useful resource for socio-legal researchers wishing to improve the quality of their empirical work and for law school researchers and postgraduates interested in the relationship between law and sociology.

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"I found all 16 papers to be of high caliber, clearly written and organized, and this makes for engaging reading. Theory and Methods in Socio-Legal Research will doubtless prove fruitful for use in all courses in sociolegal studies, but particularly in those courses taught in British and American law schools that tend to ignore conceptual and methodological considerations." --Law & Society Review, Volume 41, Number 2

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