Binding: Paperback
Description: Is the death penalty a more effective deterrent than lengthy prison sentences? Does a judge's gender influence their decisions? Do independent judiciaries promote economic freedom? Answering such questions requires empirical evidence and arguments based on empirical research have become an everyday part of legal practice scholarship and teaching. In litigation judges are confronted with empirical evidence in cases ranging from bankruptcy and taxation to criminal law and environmental infringement. In academia researchers are increasingly turning to sophisticated empirical methods to assess and challenge fundamental assumptions about the law. As empirical methods impact on traditional legal scholarship and practice new forms of education are needed for today's lawyers. All lawyers asked to present or assess empirical arguments need to understand the fundamental principles of social science methodology that underpin sound empirical research. An Introduction to Empirical Legal Research introduces that methodology in a legal context explaining how empirical analysis can inform legal arguments; how lawyers can set about framing empirical questions conducting empirical research analysing data and presenting or evaluating the results. The fundamentals of understanding quantitative and qualitative data statistical models and the structure of empirical arguments are explained in a way accessible to lawyers with or without formal training in statistics. Written by two of the world's leading experts in empirical legal analysis drawing on years of experience in training lawyers in empirical methods An Introduction to Empirical Legal Research will be an invaluable primer for all students academics or practising lawyers coming to empirical research - whether they are embarking themselves on an empirical research project or engaging with empirical arguments in their field of study research or practice.
Title: An Introduction To Empirical Legal Research
Author(s): Martin Andrew D. (Professor Of Law And Dean College Of Literature Science And The Arts Professor Of Law And Dean College Of Literature Science And The Arts University Of Michigan)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780199669066
Pages: 352 Pages
Publication Date: 10/14/2014
Category: Law & Society