Title: Doing empirical research: exploring the decision-making of magistrates and juries
Abstract: Empirical legal research is defined here to include the study of law, legal processes
and legal phenomena using social research methods, such as interviews, observations
or questionnaires. Many students and early career legal academics embarking on
empirical research into law come from academic backgrounds where they have had
limited exposure to social research methods. They may have completed law degrees
where there was some use of empirical legal research in the curriculum.1 However,
such exposure will probably be as the reader of the findings of empirical studies and
they may not have been encouraged to consider the methodological issues in much
depth. Very few will have conducted their own research using methods of quantitative or qualitative data collection and analysis. So how does a law graduate make the
transition from doctrinal legal research to carrying out their own empirical legal
studies, and what are the benefits of doing so?
Publication Year: 2017
Publication Date: 2017-07-20
Language: en
Type: article
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