The Oxford handbook of empirical legal research / edited by Peter Cane, Herbert M. Kritzer.

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

1st edition

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Jurisprudence -- Research.

Legal research.

1. The art, craft, and science of policing

2. Crime and criminals

3. Criminal process and prosecution

4. The crime-preventive impact of penal sanctions

5. Contracts and corporations

6. Financial markets

7. Consumer protection

8. Bankruptcy and insolvency

9. Regulating the professions

10. Personal injury litigation

11. Claiming behaviour as legal mobilization

12. Families

13. Labour and employment laws

14. Housing and property

15. Human rights instruments

16. Constitutions

17. Social security and social welfare

18. Occupational safety and health

19. Environmental regulation

20. Administrative justice

21. Access to civil justice

22. Judicial recruitment, training, and careers

23. Trial courts and adjudication

24. Appellate courts

25. Dispute resolution

26. Lay decision-makers in the legal process

27. Evidence law

28. Civil procedure and courts

29. Collective actions

30. Law and courts' impact on development and democratization

31. How does international law work?

32. Lawyers and other legal service providers

33. Legal pluralism

34. Public images and understandings of courts

35. Legal education and the legal academy

36. The (nearly) forgotten early empirical legal research

37. Quantitative approaches to empirical legal research

38. Qualitative approaches to empirical legal research

39. The need for multi-method approaches in empirical legal research

40. Legal theory and empirical research

41. Empirical legal research and policy-making

42. The place of empirical legal research in the law school curriculum

43. Empirical legal training in the US academy.

Table of contents and index are taken from the published work with the permission of the publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780199542475

xv, 1094 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm