The New Legal Empiricism & Its Application to Access-to-Justice Inquiries
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9685782 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D James Greiner (0000-0001-8506-9338, Chinese Journal of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 148 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 64-74 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Daedalus (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-5266 • E-ISSN: 1548-6192 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/daed_a_00536 |
| OpenAlex | W2908127120 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
The United States legal profession routinely deals with evidence in and out of courtrooms, but the profession is not evidence-based in a scientific sense. Lawyers, judges, and court administrators make decisions determining the lives of individuals and families by relying on gut intuition and instinct, not on rigorous evidence. Achieving access to justice requires employing a new legal empiricism. It starts with sharply defined research questions that are truly empirical. Disinterested investigators deploy established techniques chosen to fit the nature of those research questions, following established rules of research ethics and research integrity. New legal empiricists will follow the evidence where it leads, even when that is to unpopular conclusions challenging conventional legal thinking and practice
Economic Justice · Empiricism · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Instinct · Intuition · Legal Ethics · Legal profession · Political science · Sociology · Law · Legal Education and Practice Innovations · Legal Systems and Judicial Processes · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |