Legal Research Methodology

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Description
In our everyday like we conduct various researches like to find a good school for our child to purchase a car a house or a book and we seek many quarries from our friends or read relevant literatures . So research is a creative process and I can admit "Where there is a will there is a way" legal research is important tool not only for students of research methodology but lewyers judges law firms. PL activists and NGOs Research demands will power and innovation, dynamic analytic approach to prove or disprove hypothesis. Research inculcates scientific and inductive thinking and it promotes the development of logical habits of thinking and organisation. The most basic step in legal research is to find the leading case governing the issues in question. As most researchers know this is far more difficult than it sounds. My vision about research methodology is that, "research is a complex, multifaceted activity such that it is not easy to provide novice  researchers with relevant procedural knowledge without overwhelming and thus disempowering them." Acquiring research expertise may well be a life-long process, we simply cannot hold back with our first investigation until we have learnt every relevant detail. To edit a book like this is beset with over-structuring and simplification. The crystallised idea for editing this book is that how research methods can be taught and learnt. The emphasis is on developing a research outlook and a frame of mind for carrying out research. To present the overall research process is a unitary whole, and then to explain it by breaking it into small pieces is a difficult task. Being a student of the subject of research methodology: I feel encouraged when my teachers, friends and students put me in the job to fetch the best literature on the subject. Therefore, an endeavour is carried out through this book so that the students can grasp the details in order to get a proper perspective of the subject. Mostly researchers get off track from their research due to lack of knowledge and basic skills. They leave research thinking grapes are sour'or adopt the other non-acceptable means like plagiarism. My goal is to bring a book that would present the methodological concepts and skills that are widely shared by researchers across the field of socio-legal and interdisciplinary research. Finally, one of the most important goals of editing this book is to introduce the core principles of socio-legal research in a way that is straight forward. Hence the text of the book reflects accessibility and readability of the wide range of scholars.

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Contents
Part A : Introduction to Research and its Current Trends
Chapter 01 : Meaning, Nature, Scope and Importance of Legal Research
Chapter 02 : The Concept of Research: an Analysis of Current Trends in Legal Research
Part B : Type of Research
Chapter 03 : Type of Research
Chapter 04 : Empirical and Doctrinal Method of Research
Chapter 05 : Inductive and Deductive Method of Research: A Tool of Legal Reasoning in Crime
Chapter 06 : Socio-Legal and Comparative Research
Part C : Methods and Techniques of Identification and Formulation Research Problem
                 and Review of Literature
Chapter 07 : Selection and Formulation of Legal Research Problem: First Step towards Destination
Chapter 08 : Identification and Formulation of a Research Problems
Chapter 09 : Word Association Test: Projective Technique in Research
Chapter 10 : Review of Literature: "The Heart" of Thesis, Dissertation, Articles and Research Papers
Part D : Resumption and Construction of Hypothesis
Chapter 11 : Hypothesis: Nature and Significance in Socio-Legal Research
Chapter 12 : Relevance of Hypothesis: An Overview
Chapter 13 : Concept and Significance of Hypothesis in Research
Part E : Research Design and Sampling
Chapter 14 : Significance of Research Design in Research
Chapter 15 : Sampling in Legal Research
Part F : Tools and Techniques of Data Collection
Chapter 16 : Methods of Data Collection
Chapter 17 : Tools and Techniques of Data Collection
Chapter 18 : Socio-Legal Dimensions of the Investigation Methods of Research
Part G : Content Analysis and Report Writing
Chapter 19 : Factor Analysis: Theory and Execution
Chapter 20 : Content Analysis
Chapter 21 : Style and Format of Report Writing
Chapter 22 : Research Report Writing
Part H : Plagiarism
Chapter 23 : Academic Integrity and Plagiarism in Higher Education in India: An Overview
Chapter 24 : Ethic in Academic Writing: Plagiarism, Detection and Avoidance
Chapter 25 : Plagiarism: A Threat to the Momentous of Research Ethics
Part I : Research Ethics and role of Research guide
Chapter 26 : Ethical Issues and Challenges in the Era of Emerging Techniques of Socio-Legal Research
Chapter 27 : Diminishing Ethical Standards in Legal Research: A need for Academic Integrity
Chapter 28 : Role of Research guide and Co-guide in Legal Research
Part J : Current Trends in Research
Chapter 29 : Relevance of Legal Research in the Process of Law Reform
Chapter 30 : Role of Judges and Jurists in Legal Research
Chapter 31 : Approach of Judges and Jurists in Sicio-Legal Research
Chapter 32 : Inter-Disciplinary Research: Need and Scope in Socio-Legal Research Methods
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Author Details
Rattan Singh is Professor of Law at University Institute of Legal Studies (UILS), Panjab University, and Chandigarh. He is the former Head, Department of Laws, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar. His field of specialisation is Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, and Research Methodology.
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