ABSTRACT
Undertaking empirical research in law can be a daunting task, one for which current undergraduate and postgraduate legal education does not provide a great deal of preparation. Yet the ability to undertake such research is valuable and, some suggest, in demand. Many areas of law, its operation and effects, can be usefully informed by empirical research. This article suggests that the benefits of empiricism are both pragmatic or policy-driven, and theoretical.
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11 See, eg, Burns and Hutchinson (Citation2009), pp 167–168.
15 See generally Vick’s discussion of doctrinalism: Vick (Citation2004), pp 177–180.
17 Manderson (Citation2002), p 152; reporting on the General Information Survey for the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Note that Hutchinson and Duncan (Citation2012) comment that ‘doctrinal’ was not defined in this study: p 99.
19 Hutchinson and Duncan (Citation2012), pp 99–100, referring to an audit of theses then available digitally, undertaken by Felicity Deane and Terry Hutchinson.
20 George (Citation2006), p 146. See also Epstein and King (Citation2002) and Hutchinson and Duncan (Citation2012), p 114. Cf. Nard’s assertion that the ‘vast majority’ of legal research is theoretical in nature: Nard (Citation1995), pp 348–349.
22 For example, Leeuw (Citation2015), p 20. Though note Sarat and Silbey’s (Citation1988) discussion of differing ‘strands’ of legal realism: at pp 104–105; see also Trubek and Esser (Citation1989), pp 8–10.
34 Economides (Citation2014), p 269; Cooter (Citation2011). See also Posner (Citation1987), pp 764–765; and the Journal of Law and Economics, published by the University of Chicago Press.
37 Heise (Citation2011), p 1740 n 2. Note that Cane and Kritzer (Citation2010) eschewed use of the term in the Oxford Handbook of Empirical Legal Research: p 1.
40 See, eg, the Law & Society Review, the journal of the Law and Society Association (Sarat and Silbey (Citation1988), p 112); and the Journal of Law and Society (formerly the British Journal of Law and Society, which Harris (Citation1983) described as ‘devoted to socio-legal work’: p 316). Cane and Kritzer (Citation2010) group ‘socio-legal studies’ and ‘law and society’ together; see also Adler and Simon (Citation2014), p 175 (Figure 1).
42 Collier (Citation2004), p 518 n 69, citing Bradney (Citation2003). Trubek and Esser (Citation1989) likewise described the law and society movement as ‘a shaky coalition’: at p 47.
55 Harrington and Merry (Citation2010), p 1051. Though note Darbyshire, MacDougall and Schiller (Citation2005), pp 423–44.
84 Though noting that many do not end up in legal practice: see, eg, ‘Graduates Shun Legal Profession’, The Age (Melbourne), 20 May 2012; Graduate Careers Australia, GradStats (December 2014), p 6.
87 Further, understanding of social science methods is also relevant to the practice of law: see Burns and Hutchinson (2009).
90 Dow (Citation2011), p 526. Kelly and Kaczynski note that many American graduate students have had limited exposure to doing qualitative research: (Citation2007), pp 31–32, citing Eakin and Mykhalovskiy (2005); Kerlin (2000); Sells, Smith and Newfield (1997).
98 Noting, however, that this is based on the information available on university websites, which may not include all available options such as ‘auditing’ subjects from other courses or degrees.
99 For example, requiring a researcher to catch taxis rather than use public transport when conducting research at night, which may impose a prohibitive expense on a student. See Maher (Citation2001); van den Eynde and Veno (Citation2013).
111 Burns and Hutchinson (Citation2009), p 176, citing Adler (2007).
125 Though note Economides’ comment on this: Economides (Citation2014), p 279.
132 The project found that particular responses by police when called to domestic violence incidents were more effective in reducing recidivism, but later studies were unable to replicate these results. See Sherman and Cohn (Citation1989); Sherman et al (Citation1992). Posner (Citation1987) also provides numerous examples of ‘reforms engineered by lawyers’ that have ‘miscarried’: at pp 769–771.
152 Sarat and Silbey (Citation1988), p 115 (emphasis in original).
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