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The Politics of European Legal Research: Behind the Method

The Politics of European Legal Research: Behind the Method

Author: Marija Bartl; Jessica C. Lawrence
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781802201185
Published In: April 2022
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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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.

1. Introduction to The Politics of European Legal Research

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

Jessica C. Lawrence

3. On politics and feminist legal method in legal academia

Lyn K.L. Tjon Soei Len

4. The politics of method in the field of labour law

Ruth Dukes

5. Boundary-work and dynamics of exclusion by law: international investment law as a case study

Alessandra Arcuri

PART II. THE POLITICS OF ANSWERS