Idea and Methods of Legal Research

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Description
Legal research examines subject matter enshrouded in social circumstances in order to conceptualize theories and prepare a future course of action. This dynamic, inter-disciplinary, and labyrinthine character of legal research requires researchers to be fluid, eclectic, and analytical in their approach. Idea and Methods of Legal Research unearths how the thinking process is to be streamlined in research, how a theme is to be built on the basis of comprehensive and intensive study, and the paths through which notions of objectivity, feminism, ethics, and purposive character of knowledge are to be understood. The book first explains the meaning, evolution, and scope of legal research, and discusses objectivity and ethics in legal research. It engages with the requirements, advantages, and limits of various doctrinal and non-doctrinal methods and tools, and the points to be considered in selecting a suitable method or combination of methods. It highlights analytical, historical, philosophical, comparative, qualitative, and quantitative methods of legal research. The book then goes on to discuss the use of multi-method legal research, policy research, action research, and feminist legal research and finally, reflects on research-based critical legal writing as distinct from client-based or norm-creating legal writing. This book, thus, is a comprehensive answer to key questions one faces in legal research.
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Contents
Part I    :    General
Part II   :    Doctrinal Legal Research Methods
Part III  :    Non-Doctrinal Legal Research Methods
Part IV  :    Integrated Methods of Legal Research
Part V   :    Research Reporting
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Author Details
P. Ishwara Bhat is Vice Chancellor of the Karnataka State Law University, Hubballi, He has four decades of experience in teaching and conducting research in law, and specializes in constitutional law and research methodology. He has previously served as professor of law at the University of Mysore, Karnataka, and as Vice Chancellor of The West Bengal National University of juridical Sciences, Kolkata.
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