Module LAWM686 for 2019/0
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Postgraduate Module Descriptor
LAWM686: Approaches to Research in Law (ESRC)
This module descriptor refers to the 2019/0 academic year.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
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Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following topics (with some possible variation in the order of delivery):
- Introduction and empirical approaches to law
- Comparative approaches to law
- Historical approaches to law
- Theoretical approaches to law
- Planning research
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
|---|---|---|
| 15 | 135 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
| Category | Hours of study time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | 15 | 15 contact hours in 5 student-centred three-hour interactive workshops |
| Guided independent study | 80 | Locating and reading materials (80 hours) |
| Guided Independent Study | 20 | Preparing synthetic notes and short oral presentations for the specific task set in each workshop |
| Guided independent study | 35 | Assessment preparation: conducting research, producing formative work and writing up the summative work |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
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.
Indicative Reading:
Auchmuty R., ‘Recovering Lost Lives: Researching Women in Legal History’ (2015) Journal of Law and Society 42(1): 34-52
Burton, M and Watkins, D, Research Methods in Law (Routledge, 2013)
Baldwin, R , ‘Why Rules Don't Work’ (1990) 53 Modern Law Review 321-37
Baldwin, R and Cave, M,Understanding Regulation (Oxford University Press, 1999)
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, (Blackwell Publishers, 1993).
Frankenberg, G, Comparative Law as Critique (E Elgar, 2016)
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, The Concept of Law, ( Clarendon Press, 1961)
Merry, S., . ‘Global Human Rights and Local Social Movements in a Legally Plural World’ (1997) Canadian Journal of Law and Society 12(2): 247-271.
O'Donovan, K, Sexual Divisions in Law (Weidenfeld, 1985)
Robertson S., ‘Searching for Anglo-American Digital Legal History’ (2016) Law and History Review 34(4): 1047-69
Smart, C., Feminism and the Power of Law (Routledge, 1989)
Snyder, F., ‘Governing Economic Globalisation: Global Legal Pluralism and European Law’ (1999) European Law Journal 5(4): 334-374
Stychin, C. Legal Methods (Sweet and Maxwell, 1999)
Tamanaha, B., A General Jurisprudence of Law and Society, (Oxford University Press, 2001)
Teubner, G, Juridification of Social Spheres (De Gruyter, 1987 )
Thomas, P. (ed), Socio Legal Studies (Aldershot1997)
Twining W., Legal Theory and Common Law (Blackwell, 1986)
Wickham, G. and Pavlich, G., Rethinking Law Society and Governance: Foucault's Bequest (Hart, 2002).
Yilmaz, I. ,’The Challenge of Post-Modern Legality and Muslim Legal Pluralism in England’ (2002) Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 28(2):343-354.
