Postgraduate Module Descriptor

LAWM686: Approaches to Research in Law

This module descriptor refers to the 2016/7 academic year.

Indicative Reading List

This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.

Core Reading:
Burton and Watkins, Research Methods in Law Routledge, 2013
Baldwin, R (1990) Why Rules Don't Work (1990) 53 MLR pp 321-37
Baldwin, R and Cave, M (1999) Understanding Regulation (Oxford University Press, Oxford)
Banakar, R and Travers, M (eds) An Introduction to Law and Social Theory,( Hart Publishing, 2002)
Bottomley, A. and Conaghan J. (eds) Feminist theory and legal strategy, (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1993).
Feely, M. and Rubin, E. Judicial Policymaking and the Modern State (Cambridge University Press 2001)
Fineman M. and Thomadsen, N. (eds) At the Boundaries of Law (Routledge, 1991)
Kunz et al. The Process of Legal Research, (Aspen, 2000)
Harlow, C. and Rawlings, R. Pressure Through Law (Routledge 1992)
Hart, H.L. (1961) The Concept of Law, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Merry, S. 1997. Global Human Rights and Local Social Movements in a Legally Plural World, Canadian Journal of Law and Society (12(2): 247-271.
O'Donovan, K. Sexual Divisions in Law (Weidenfeld, 1985)
Schultz , D. (ed.), Leveraging the Law: Using the Courts to Achieve Social Change
Smart, C. Feminism and the Power of Law (Routledge, 1989)
Snyder, F. 1999 Governing Economic Globalisation: Global Legal Pluralism and European Law, European Law Journal 5(4): 334-374
Stychin, C. Legal Methods (London, Sweet and Maxwell, 1999)
Tamanaha, B., (2001), A general jurisprudence of law and society, Oxford University Press, Chapters 1-2
Teubner, G. Juridification of social spheres (De Gruyter, 1987 )
Teubner, G. Autopeic Law: A New Approach to Law and Society (De Gruyter, 1987 )
Thomas, P. (ed) Socio Legal Studies (Aldershot, Dartmouth) 1997
Twining W., Legal Theory and Common Law (Blackwell, 1986)
Weber, M (1978) Economy and Society : an outline of interpretive sociology
Wickham, G. and Pavlich, G. Rethinking Law Society and Governance: Foucault's Bequest Hart, 2002?.
Yilmaz, I. 2002. The Challenge of Post-Modern Legality and Muslim Legal Pluralism in England, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 28(2):343-354.