After this course:
- students have knowledge of different external research approaches of law and their methodological issues (sociological and other external normative approaches of philosophy of law and of politics).
- students are able to discern those external research approaches of law from internal approaches of law, and know how they relate to those internal approaches.
- students are able to identify the differences between legal and empirical research, and know the differences between qualitative and quantitative research.
- students are able to design a research by using a qualitative (empirical) approach, possibly but not necessarily integrated with internal legal research questions or in other approaches of legal research.
- students are able to design a research by combining internal legal research question with an external approach of legal problems, while explicitly addressing methodological issues.
- students have developed some sensitivity for ethics and integrity issues for researchers.
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In this course we will focus on how to develop a research design with a methodology that fits the kind of questions you want to answer. In the Methodology I and II courses, you have considered legal traditions and the use of sources for legal research and comparative work.. In this course you will learn the basics of qualitative empirical legal research, and you will learn how to deal with quantitative empirical research reports for legal research. We will do exercises with the reconstruction of qualitative (and quantitative) empirical research designs, you will develop a legal evaluation research design and finally, you will develop a research that fits one of your LRM research projects while using an external perspective. Here you are free to choose a relevant research subject of your liking. This course will help you find research outcomes that are scientifically defensible from (qualitative or quantitative) empirical research perspectives. We will also do some exercises with ethical issues for researchers.
Please note we cannot offer all possible external approaches (e.g. forensics or literature or linguistics) during this course.
Place of the course within the curriculum:
- Compulsory course in the master Legal Research
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