Legal Education and Research Methodology

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Description
Research is a continuous process to identify the problem and find its solution. Legal research is necessary to give proper direction to the study of law. I t is indispensable for legal scholars, students, lawyers as well as judges. University Grant Commission has introduced the subject at the master's level.  Very few work is done on the subject which covers the syllabi of U.G.C. curriculum. Keeping in view the dire need of such a work, author brought out the book on legal research methodology including methods of legal teaching. The chapters in the book have been put into two parts : Part A deals with the legal education and contains 9 Chapters. These chapters being to focus the methods of law teaching, their merits and demerits. Reports of Law Commission and Knowledge Commission have also been incorporated here. Part B of the book deals mainly with research methodology in 20 Chapters/ These chapter take into account the diverse aspects of legal research including different kinds of research methods, sampling tools of data collection, analysis and data, report writing, etc.
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Contents
Part - A
Chapter 1    :    Methods of Teaching
Chapter 2    :    Lecture Method
Chapter 3    :    Discussion Method
Chapter 4    :    Problem Solving Method
Chapter 5    :    Seminar Method
Chapter 6    :    Clinical Method
Chapter 7    :    Role Playing
Chapter 8    :    Future of Legal Education in India
Chapter 9    :    Problems in Examination, Evaluation and Assessment System
Part - B
Chapter 1    :    What is Research
Chapter 2    :    Legal Research
Chapter 3    :    Legal Reasoning
Chapter 4    :    Hypothesis
Chapter 5    :    Selection and Formulation of Problems
Chapter 6    :    Approaches of Research
Chapter 7    :    Sampling in Legal Research
Chapter 8    :    Doctrinal and Non-doctrinal Methods
Chapter 9    :    Empirical Method
Chapter 10  :    Methods and Tools for Data Collection in Legal Research
Chapter 11  :    Observation Method
Chapter 12  :    Questionnaire
Chapter 13  :    Interview
Chapter 14  :    Schedules
Chapter 15  :    Case Study Method
Chapter 16  :    Processing, Analysis and Interpretation of Data in Legal Research
Chapter 17  :    Jurimetric
Chapter 18  :    How do we Research Legal Material 
Chapter 19  :    Use of Computer in Research
Chapter 20  :    Writing the Research Report 
Reference
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Author Details
Mona Purohit B.Sc., LL.M., Ph.D.,
Associate Prof., Dept. of Legal Studies and Research, Barkatullah University, Bhopal
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