Abstract
This volume is premised on the idea that when (legal) scholars choose their academic or scientific approaches or methods, they are making value-laden-political-choices. This is necessarily so, as in selecting their methods legal scholars also, whether consciously or not, take a stand on important background framing questions: What research questions should they be posing? What is the best way to reach the answers (they want)? Which audiences should they target? How can or should they instrumentalise the 'concept of law' in pursuit of their ends? This introduction identifies four axes of methodological struggle along which the politics of European legal research plays out: the politics of questions; the politics of answers; the politics of audiences; and the politics of the concept of law. In doing so, it aims to show how the questions that lurk 'behind the method' reveal their politics in multiple, overlapping, and sometimes conflicting ways.
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