Thursday, 2 May 2019 – Saturday, 4 May 2019
Room TC 1.9, University of Essex
Legal research entails the evaluation of legal phenomena in their political, social, cultural, doctrinal or other contexts. Contemporary modes of inquiry into legal phenomena increasingly use more than one discipline in the production of interdisciplinary research and writing. Even subjects that were traditionally taught by way of the doctrinal method have opened up to socio-legal approaches. There is a much greater emphasis on the sociology of law, and the social and political forces that shape legal doctrine and institutions. Law as a social phenomenon can be understood empirically through a range of different methods. Thus, contemporary postgraduate researchers need to expand beyond the black letter law training of practitioners and be aware of major trends in the social sciences of relevance to their own research and future careers. The key idea behind the multidisciplinary workshop for law postgraduate research students is to introduce candidates to a broad range of theoretical and practical approaches to legal research.
This three-day workshop will consist of workshops and informal networking.
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Videos from the workshops
Theory & Method in Socio-Legal Research Reza Banakar
Qualitative Approaches, Tola Amodu, University of East Anglia
Interviewing Theory & Practice, Carla Ferstman – School of Law, University of Essex
Research Ethics, Hedi Viterbo, Sarah Manning-Press, Beverley Pascoe
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Comparative International Law, Claudina Richards
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Quantitative Approaches, Patrick Lown
Feminist Approaches to Legal Research, Emily Jones and Patricia Palacios-Zuloaga
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Security in the Field, Jenny Pearce
Critical Legal Studies, Illan Rua Wall
Data Management, Veerle Van den Eynden
Critical Race Theory & Legal Research, Joel Modiri
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The Doctrinal Approach, Tom Flynn