The Politics of European Legal Research

Behind the Method

Marija Bartl, Jessica C. Lawrence (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2022
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-80220-118-5 (ISBN)

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Making a key contribution to the contemporary debate about methods in European legal research, this comprehensive book looks behind different methodologies to explore the institutional, disciplinary, and political conflicts that shape questions of ‘method’ or ‘approach’ in European legal scholarship. Offering a new perspective on the underlying politics of method, it identifies four core dimensions of methodological struggle in legal research – the politics of questions, the politics of answers, the politics of legal audiences, and the politics of the concept of law.

Chapters explore how methodological choices impact the questions legal scholars ask, the answers they seek, the audiences for and to whom they speak, and ultimately their understanding of the legal and the social world. Leading contributors uncover the framing discourses, institutional inertias, and political pressures that shape research questions, while assessing the effects of importing social science methods into legal research, and how audiences of legal research and education shape our understanding of law.

Concluding with a reflection on the continued, if qualified, relevance of formal doctrinal methods for European legal research, this thought-provoking book will be a key resource for students and scholars of law and politics, research methods and European law.

Edited by Marija Bartl, Professor of Transnational Private Law, Amsterdam School of Law, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Jessica C. Lawrence, Senior Lecturer, School of Law, University of Essex, UK

Contents:

1 Introduction to The Politics of European Legal Research 1
Marija Bartl, Pola Cebulak and Jessica C. Lawrence

PART I THE POLITICS OF QUESTIONS
2 Governmentality as reflexive method: excavating the
politics of legal research 15
Jessica C. Lawrence
3 On politics and feminist legal method in legal academia 31
Lyn K.L. Tjon Soei Len
4 The politics of method in the field of labour law 45
Ruth Dukes
5 Boundary-work and dynamics of exclusion by law:
international investment law as a case study 60
Alessandra Arcuri

PART II THE POLITICS OF ANSWERS
6 Statistics as if legality mattered: the two-front politics of
empirical legal studies 78
Tommaso Pavone and Juan Mayoral
7 Sociological institutionalism as a lens to study
judicialization: a bridge between legal scholarship and
political science 94
Julien Bois and Mark Dawson
8 Politics of coding: on systematic content analysis of legal text 109
Or Brook
9 Taming law: the risks of making doctrinal analysis the
servant of empirical Research 124
Gareth Davies

PART III THE POLITICS OF AUDIENCES
10 The politics of interdisciplinarity in law 140
Irina Domurath
11 The politics of legal education 159
Marija Bartl and Candida Leone
12 Comparative administrative law in the EU: the integration
function and its limits 177
Joana Mendes

PART IV THE POLITICS OF THE CONCEPT OF LAW
13 A timid defence of legal formalism 192
Christina Eckes
14 How to study worlds: or why one should (not) care about
methodology 208
Poul F. Kjaer
15 The measuring of the law through EU politics 224
Hans-W. Micklitz
16 Telos of a method 240
Siniša Rodin
17 Conclusion: an emergent alliance for ‘critical doctrine’ 255
Marija Bartl, Pola Cebulak and Jessica C. Lawrence

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Erscheinungsdatum	13.04.2022
Reihe/Serie	Elgar Studies in Legal Research Methods
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
ISBN-10	1-80220-118-1 / 1802201181
ISBN-13	978-1-80220-118-5 / 9781802201185
Zustand	Neuware