Research Methods for Law

Preface and Acknowledgements vii Introduction and Overview 1 Mike McConville and Wing Hong Chui 1. Qualitative Legal Research 16 Ian Dobinson and Francis Johns 2. Quantitative Legal Research 46 Wing Hong Chui 3. Doing Ethnographic Research: Lessons from a Case Study 69 Satnam Choongh 4. Comparative Legal Scholarship 87 Geoffrey Wilson 5. Integrating Theory and Method in the Comparative Contextual Analysis of Trial Process 104 Mark Findlay and Ralph Henham 6. Researching the Landless Movement in Brazil 133 George Meszaros 7. Non-empirical Discovery in Legal Scholarship Choosing, Researching and Writing a Traditional Scholarly Article 159 Michael Pendleton 8. Researching International Law 181 Stephen Hall 9. Development of Empirical Techniques and Theory 207 Mike McConville Notes on Contributors 230 Index 234