Mathias M Siems and Daithi Mac Sithigh’s ‘Mapping legal research’, due for (2012) 71:3 Cambridge Law Journal 651, has been made available on SSRN:
This article aims to map the position of academic legal research, using
a distinction between “law as a practical discipline”, “law as humanities” and
“law as social sciences” as a conceptual framework. Having explained this
framework, we address both the “macro” and “micro” level of legal research in
the UK.
For this purpose, we have collected information on the position of all law
schools within the structure of their respective universities. We also
introduce “ternary plots” as a new way of explaining individual research
preferences. Our general result is that all three categories play a role within
the context of UK
legal academia, though the relationship between the “macro” and the “micro”
level is not always straight-forward. We also provide comparisons with the US
and Germany and show that in all three countries law as an academic tradition
has been constantly evolving, raising questions such as whether the UK could or
should move further to a social science model already dominant in the US.
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