Research Methods in Law

‘This is a highly original approach to a pressing problem of legal reasoning: how to decide in a context in which many different values and interests need to be considered. The interdisciplinary approach chosen, using decision theory and...

‘At a time when the performative demands of the neo-liberal university threaten to marginalize liberal and post-liberal traditions of critical enquiry, it is important to be reminded that a quality legal education can be both richly scep...

‘A valuable collection of original analyses of the way various disciplines conceptualise facts, values, and norms in the realms of judging, lawyering, and legislating – and the interdisciplinary challenges and opportunities this offers....

‘This book proves to be an excellent guide through the labyrinth of law. Its crucial point is legal order viewed from the perspective of a situated “We”. Jurisprudence appears as an implicit sort of thinking, embedded in moral, political...

‘. . . the individual chapters are all eminently informative and very readable. It is therefore certainly true, as stated in the foreword by Philip Allott, that this Handbook will “encourage more thinkers and more thought” on internation...