Abstract
The position of legal studies has increasingly become part of a debate among legal scholars and their university colleagues in disciplines like economics, sociology, political sciences, psychology, history and linguistics. This shift has gone hand in hand with internationalisation, Europeanisation and globalisation processes over the last 30 years. The legal scholars' playing field as well as the rules of the game, the methodology, have both changed tremendously, and that change has triggered a long overdue debate about methodology in legal studies.
Highlights
The position of legal studies has increasingly become part of a debate among legal scholars and their university colleagues in disciplines like economics, sociology, political sciences, psychology, history and linguistics
Where law as a discipline developed into a national discipline in the 19th century,[2] it has loosened its ties from national legal debates in recent years
The legal scholars’ playing field as well as the rules of the game, the methodology, have both changed tremendously, and that change has triggered a long overdue debate about methodology in legal studies.[3]. With this special issue of the Utrecht Law Review, we contribute to this debate
Summary
The position of legal studies has increasingly become part of a debate among legal scholars and their university colleagues in disciplines like economics, sociology, political sciences, psychology, history and linguistics. Methodology of Legal Research: Challenges and Opportunities different aspects of how human beings think and behave This debate will face important challenges, in part because the social and behavioural sciences are disciplines that have their origin (in part) in law, like for example law and public administration,[11] but have grown apart worldwide. The second line of development is an ongoing debate between traditional academic lawyers and legal researchers on the methods for legal analysis and legal research This ‘internal’ debate on methodology becomes even more fruitful when a legal scholar starts to make comparisons with other jurisdictions, or considers past law as a still valid part of positive law.[12] What to date has been seen as ‘traditional legal methodology’ will show itself as not having been self-evident at all.
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