Empirical legal research : a guidance book for lawyers, legislators and regulators / Frans L. Leeuw, Professor of Law, Public Policy and Social Science Research, Maastricht University, Faculty of Law and Director, Security and Justice Research Center (WODC), the Hague, the Netherlands ; with Hans Schmeets, Professor in Social Statistics, Maastricht University and Senior Researcher Statistics, Netherlands, the Netherlands.
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Empirical legal research : a guidance book for lawyers, legislators and regulators / Frans L. Leeuw, Professor of Law, Public Policy and Social Science Research, Maastricht University, Faculty of Law and Director, Security and Justice Research Center (WODC), the Hague, the Netherlands ; with Hans Schmeets, Professor in Social Statistics, Maastricht University and Senior Researcher Statistics, Netherlands, the Netherlands.
Published
Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton MA, USA : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2016]
Copyright
©2016
Call Number
K85 .L439 2016
ISBN
9781782549390 (cased)
1782549390 (cased)
9781782549413 (eBook)
1782549412 (eBook)
1782549390 (cased)
9781782549413 (eBook)
1782549412 (eBook)
Description
vii, 319 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)944472616
Summary
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-299) and index.
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Table of Contents
List of figures
vi
List of tables
vii
1.
Introducing empirical legal research and structure of the book
1
2.
Roots of empirical legal research: a concise history in 20 1/4 pages
20
3.
Research problems
41
4.
Theories and empirical legal research
54
5.
Research reviews and syntheses
82
6.
Research designs: raisons d'etre, examples and criteria
101
7.
Data collection methods
130
8.
Analyzing and visualizing quantitative and qualitative data
158
9.
Transferring research results to legal professionals, utilization and the fact-value dichotomy
220
10.
Empirical legal research: booming business and growth of knowledge?
236
References
260
Index
301