Non-doctrinal Research Methods in Environmental Law

Non-doctrinal Research Methods in Environmental Law
Author: Paul Martin
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2023-09-06
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1803922761

This timely book explores the innovative non-doctrinal methods currently being used in environmental law research. Drawing on their extensive experience, expert contributors provide insight into how creative approaches to research can improve understanding of law and policy, leading to more effective legal protection for the environment.

Research Methods in Environmental Law

Research Methods in Environmental Law
Author: Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 601
Release: 2017-11-24
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1784712574

This timely Handbook brings innovative, free-thinking and radical approaches to research methods in environmental law. With a comprehensive approach it brings together key concepts such as sustainability, climate change, activism, education and Actor-Network Theory. It considers how the Anthropocene subjects environmental law to critique, and to the needs of the variety of bodies, human and non-human, that require its protection. This much-needed book provides a theoretically informed analysis of methodological approaches in the discipline, such as constitutional analysis, rights-based approaches, spatial/geographical analysis, immersive methodologies and autoethnography, which will aid in the practical critique and re-imagining of Environmental Law.

Idea and Methods of Legal Research

Idea and Methods of Legal Research
Author: P. Ishwara Bhat
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 578
Release: 2019-09-05
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0199098301

Legal research examines subject matter enshrouded in social circumstances in order to conceptualize theories and prepare a future course of action. This dynamic, inter-disciplinary, and labyrinthine character of legal research requires researchers to be fluid, eclectic, and analytical in their approach. Idea and Methods of Legal Research unearths how the thinking process is to be streamlined in research, how a theme is built on the basis of comprehensive and intensive study, and the paths through which notions of objectivity, feminism, ethics, and purposive character of knowledge are to be understood. The book first explains the meaning, evolution, and scope of legal research, and discusses objectivity and ethics in legal research. It engages with the requirements, advantages, and limits of various doctrinal and non-doctrinal methods and tools, and the points to be considered in selecting a suitable method or combination of methods. It highlights analytical, historical, philosophical, comparative, qualitative, and quantitative methods of legal research. The book then goes on to discuss the use of multi-method legal research, policy research, action research, and feminist legal research and finally, reflects on research-based critical legal writing, as opposed to client-related legal writing. This book, thus, is a comprehensive answer to key questions one faces in legal research.

Pluralising International Legal Scholarship

Pluralising International Legal Scholarship
Author: Rossana Deplano
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2019-12-27
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1788976371

This unique book examines the role non-doctrinal research methods play in international legal research: what do they add to the traditional doctrinal analysis of law and what do they neglect? Focusing on empirical and socio-legal methods, it provides a critical evaluation of the breadth, scope and limits of the representation of international law created by these often-neglected methodologies.

State Responsibility for Non-State Actors

State Responsibility for Non-State Actors
Author: Richard Mackenzie-Gray Scott
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2022-09-08
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1509951563

This book investigates how state responsibility can be determined for the wrongdoing of non-state actors. Every day, people, businesses and societies around the world pay a price arising from interactions between states and non-state actors. From insurrections that attempt to create new governments, to states arming belligerent proxies operating overseas, to companies damaging natural environments or providing suspect services, the impact of such situations are felt in numerous ways. They also raise many questions relating to responsibility. In answering these, State Responsibility for Non-State Actors provides a picture of what the law governing this area is, what it could be, and what it should be in light of past histories, present realities and future prospects.

Interdisciplinary Research Methods in EU Law

Interdisciplinary Research Methods in EU Law
Author: Rossana Deplano
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2024-06-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1802205853

This comprehensive Handbook provides a critical and analytical guide to the application of interdisciplinary research methods in EU law and explores the advancement of the EU legal landscape from an interdisciplinary research perspective. Venturing beyond doctrinal legal scholarship, it reflects on the cognitive synergies between EU law and other disciplines, and advances the debate on contemporary trends in EU law research. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.

From Sources to Solution

From Sources to Solution
Author: A.Z. Aris
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 569
Release: 2013-11-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9814560707

Featuring the theme, From Sources to Solution, this book is based on the research papers presented during the International Conference on Environmental Forensics 2013. It covers multi-disciplinary areas of environmental forensics featuring major themes: characterization, assessment, and monitoring; new approach, rapid assessment, and analytical techniques; pollution control technology; environmental health risk assessment; and policy, governance and management. It present information for researchers from the science and social sciences disciplines and contribute to the advancement of Environmental Forensics. It also aims at evaluating the environmental damages as the result of indiscriminating discharge of toxic environmental pollutants.

The Politics of European Legal Research

The Politics of European Legal Research
Author: Bartl, Marija
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2022-04-19
Genre: Law
ISBN: 180220119X

Making a key contribution to the contemporary debate about methods in European legal research, this comprehensive book looks behind different methodologies to explore the institutional, disciplinary, and political conflicts that shape questions of ‘method’ or ‘approach’ in European legal scholarship. Offering a new perspective on the underlying politics of method, it identifies four core dimensions of methodological struggle in legal research – the politics of questions, the politics of answers, the politics of legal audiences, and the politics of the concept of law.

Perspectives on Environmental Law Scholarship

Perspectives on Environmental Law Scholarship
Author: Ole W. Pedersen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2018-11-08
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108626726

This collection invites environmental law scholars to reflect on what it means to be an environmental law scholar and to consider how and why environmental law scholars engage in environmental law scholarship. Leading environmental law scholars from different backgrounds and jurisdictions offer their personal reflections on the nature, form, quality and challenges of environmental law scholarship. The collection offers the first honest introspection on what environmental law scholarship is and is not. It considers the unique contributions of environmental law scholarship to legal scholarship more generally, reflecting on what sets environmental law scholarship apart from other disciplines of legal scholarship and the challenges arising from these differences.

The Art of Environmental Law

The Art of Environmental Law
Author: Benjamin J Richardson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 407
Release: 2019-12-12
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1509924612

Environmental law has aesthetic dimensions. Aesthetic values have shaped the making of environmental law, and in turn such law governs many of our nature-based sensory experiences. Aesthetics is also integral to understanding the very fabric of environmental law, in its institutions, procedures and discourses. The Art of Environmental Law, the first book of its kind, brings new insights into the importance of aesthetic issues in a variety of domains of environmental governance around the world, from climate change to biodiversity conservation. It also argues for aesthetics, and relatedly the arts, to be taken more seriously in the practice of environmental law so as to improve our emotional and ethical capacities to address the upheavals of the Anthropocene.