Interactive Syllabus

Research Methodology course focuses on the introduction to scientific research in law and legal science. The course deals with formal and structural issues related to legal research, including differences between doctrinal and empirical research. The goal of the course is to present to student main formal rules, patterns and conventions related to legal research.

After completing the course, the student:

• knows how to describe and how to explain specific methods of legal analysis;
• understands theoretical and empirical elements of legal theory;
• knows how to prepare an analysis of the position of law in society;
• analyzes actual trends in legal research;
• can identify actual trends in law and legal research.

Main theoretical topics of the course “Research Methodology”:

• Specific approaches to science in law – legal science.
• Relations between law and science.
• Field of legal research.
• Paradigms of legal research.
• Legal studies ethics.
• Doctrinal vs empirical research. Library or society?
• Doctrinal legal research.