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Informationen zum Autor Mark Van Hoecke is Professor of Comparative Law at Queen Mary University of London, UK. Klappentext This book explores questions about the coverage and identity of legal research in terms of its expansion to an interdisciplinary field. Zusammenfassung This book explores questions about the coverage and identity of legal research in terms of its expansion to an interdisciplinary field. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Legal Doctrine: Which Method(s) for What Kind of Discipline?Mark Van Hoecke2. The Method of a Truly Normative Legal Science Jaap Hage3. Explanatory Non-Normative Legal Doctrine. Taking the Distinction between Theoretical and Practical Reason Seriously Anne Ruth Mackor4. A World without Law Professors Mathias M Siems5. Open or Autonomous? The Debate on Legal Methodology as a Reflection of the Debate on Law Pauline C Westerman6. Methodology of Legal Doctrinal Research: A Comment on Westerman Jan Vranken7. The Epistemological Function of 'la Doctrine' Horatia Muir Watt8. Maps, Methodologies and Critiques: Confessions of a Contract Lawyer Roger Brownsword9. Legal Research and the Distinctiveness of Comparative Law John Bell10. Does One Need an Understanding of Methodology in Law Before One Can Understand Methodology in Comparative Law? Geoffrey Samuel11. Comparative Law, Legal Linguistics and Methodology of Legal Doctrine Jaakko Husa12. Doing What Doesn't Come Naturally. On the Distinctiveness of Comparative Law Maurice Adams13. Promises and Pitfalls of Interdisciplinary Legal Research: The Case of Evolutionary Analysis in Law Bart Du Laing14. Behavioural Economics and Legal Research Julie De Coninck15. Theory and Object in Law: the Case for Legal Scholarship as Indirect Speech Bert Van Roermund