Empirical Legal Research
Subtitle: A Guidance Book for Lawyers, Legislators and Regulators
Publisher: Elgar Publishing Limited, Edward
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9781782549390
Subjects: Legal research
Description: Publisher's description: Empirical Legal Research describes how to investigate the roles of legislation, regulation, legal policies and other legal arrangements at play in society. It is invaluable as a guide to legal scholars, practitioners and students on how to do empirical legal research, covering history, methods, evidence, growth of knowledge and links with normativity. This multidisciplinary approach combines insights and approaches from different social sciences, evaluation studies, Big Data analytics and empirically informed ethics.