Which Kind of Method for What Kind of Discipline?.
Mark van Hoecke
London
Bloomsbury Publishing
2011
(310 pages).
European Academy of Legal Theory series.
Prelims; Preface; Contents; List of Contributors; 1 Legal Doctrine: Which Method(s) for What Kind of Discipline?; 2 The Method of a Truly Normative Legal Science; 3 Explanatory Non-Normative Legal Doctrine. Taking the Distinction between Theoretical and Practical Reason Seriously; 4 A World without Law Professors; 5 Open or Autonomous? The Debate on Legal Methodology as a Reflection of the Debate on Law; 6 Methodology of Legal Doctrinal Research: A Comment on Westerman; 7 The Epistemological Function of 'la Doctrine'; 8 Maps, Methodologies, and Critiques: Confessions of a Contract Lawyer. 9 Legal Research and the Distinctiveness of Comparative Law10 Does One Need an Understanding of Methodology in Law Before One Can Understand Methodology in Comparative Law?; 11 Comparative Law, Legal Linguistics and Methodology of Legal Doctrine; 12 Doing What Doesn't Come Naturally. On the Distinctiveness of Comparative Law; 13 Promises and Pitfalls of Interdisciplinary Legal Research: The Case of Evolutionary Analysis in Law; 14 Behavioural Economics and Legal Research; 15 Theory and Object in Law: the Case for Legal Scholarship as Indirect Speech; Index.
This book explores questions about the coverage and identity of legal research in terms of its expansion to an interdisciplinary field.