Law and Society Studies in Context
Suggestions for a Cross-Country Comparison of Socio-Legal Research and Teaching
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21971374 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tanja Herklotz (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 1332-1344 |
| Publication date | 2020-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | German Law Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2071-8322 • E-ISSN: 2071-8322 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/glj.2020.76 |
| OpenAlex | W3093842380 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Cultures of legal and socio-legal scholarship, like legal cultures themselves, are shaped by their respective historical, cultural, economic, and socio-political context. Socio-legal—or law and society—studies are thus pursued and taught differently in different parts of the world. This Article suggests making socio-legal studies the object of comparative research, so as to understand and explain commonalities, differences, and context dependencies in socio-legal scholarship and teaching in different countries. Such comparative endeavors help to translate between different academic languages and to critically reflect upon one’s own research methods and system of legal education. They prove useful for scholars planning research in other parts of the world or engaging in cross-country collaborative research projects, and for research institutions and policymakers involved in reforming research funding and legal education. But how do we go about comparing socio-legal studies? More specifically, why, what, and how do we compare, and what are the challenges that we may face when pursuing such comparative endeavors? This Article gives an overview of potential research questions that a comparison between socio-legal studies may address, the sources that comparativists may draw on, the methods such a comparative endeavor may use to collect and analyze data, and the challenges researchers may face when attempting to compare socio-legal studies in different parts of the world
Comparative research · Empirical legal studies · Engineering ethics · Geography · Legal Education · Legal profession · Legal realism · Legal research · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Comparative and International Law Studies · Engineering · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Legal Education and Practice Innovations
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |