Methodologies of legal research : which kind of method for what kind of discipline? / edited by Mark van Hoecke.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Legal doctrine : which method(s) for what kind of discipline? / Mark van Hoecke -- The method of a truly normative legal science / Jaap Hage -- Explanatory non-normative legal doctrine : taking the distinction between theoretical and practical reason seriously / Anne Ruth Mackor -- A world without law professors / Mathias M. Siems -- Open or autonomous? : the debate on legal methodology as a reflection of the debate on law / Pauline C. Westermman -- Methodology of legal doctrinal research : a comment on Westerman / Jan Vranken -- The epistemological function of "la doctrine" / Horatia Muir Watt -- Maps, methodologies and critiques : confessions of a contract lawyer / Roger Brownsword -- Legal research and the distinctiveness of comparative law / John Bell -- Does one need an understanding of methodology in law before one can understand methodology in comparative law? / Geoffrey Samuel -- Comparative law, legal linguistics and methodology of legal doctrine / Jaakko Husa -- Doing what doesn't come naturally : on the distinctiveness of comparative law / Maurice Adams -- Promises and pitfalls of interdisciplinary legal research : the case of evolutionary analysis in law / Bart Du Laing -- Behavioural economics and legal research / Julie De Coninck -- Theory and objection in law : the case for legal scholarship as indirect speech / Bert Van Roermund.