Routledge Handbook of Socio-Legal Theory and Methods

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Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of contributors
PART I: Approaching socio-legal studies
	1. Socio-legal theory and methods: introduction
		The organisation of the handbook
	2. Traditions of studying the social and the legal: a short introduction to the institutional and intellectual development of socio-legal studies
		Introduction
		Institutions of law and society
		Individual paths in law and society/socio-legal studies
		Conclusion
		References
	3. Uses and abuses of socio-legal studies
		Introduction: origin stories—the field’s and mine
		“Good” uses of socio-legal studies: verifiable patterns of socio-legal behavior—ideas, empirics and policy
		“Misuses” (or lack of use) of socio-legal studies
		Implications: the limits of disciplinary thinking and acall for rigorous multidisciplinariety
		References
		Cases Cited
	4. The why and how to of conducting a socio-legal empirical research project
		Introduction
		Why socio-legal?
		An approach to the staging of socio-legal research projects: the how
		Issues of wider relevance
		Conclusion
		Further reading
		References
	5. Writing beyond distinctions
		How to write beyond distinctions
		Have we ever not been critical?
		What is the context of the law?
		Why do we all fail?
		Why must legal essays be disappointing?
		The essay as body?
		How many am I?
		What comes first, the idea or the writing?
		The responsibility of writing beyond distinctions
		What was the final distinction again?
		Further reading
		References
	6. Doing critical-socio-legal theory
		Introduction
		Theory and critical-socio-legal theory
		Doing theory and unlimiting law
		Conclusion
		Further reading
		References
	7. ‘Indefensible and irresponsible’: interdisciplinarity, truth and #reviewer2
		Socio-legal studies as problematic
		Interdisciplinary problems in action: acase study
		Our paper
		Self-critique
		Reviewer 2: on “reality” and the purpose of scholarship
		Reviewer 2 and “legality”
		Reviewer 2 and the irresponsible authors
		Conclusion
		References
	8. Ethical awareness and socio-legal research in the UK
		Introduction
		The codes
		The process
		Problems with research ethics, SLSA principles, and RECs
		Risky socio-legal work and ethical ‘refusal’
		Conclusions: strategies and support for socio-legal researchers
		Recommended reading
		References
	9. On objectivity and staying ‘native’: researching LGBTQI+ lawyers as a queer lawyer
		Introduction
		Difficulties achieving objectivity and benefits of membership: auditing, access, authority, and the problem of categories
		The problem of objectivity
		Presence in research
		Intersections
		Conclusion
		Further reading
		References
	10. The politics of research impact: a Scottish case study
		Introduction: the impact agenda
		Research impact: challenges and obstacles
		Post-devolution Scotland: criminology and the politics of research impact
		Knowledge production and dissemination in hot and cold climates
		Knowledge production in acool climate: researching stop and search
		Knowledge dissemination in aheated climate
		Pathways to impact
		Conclusion and further reading
		Suggested further readings
		References
PART II: Disciplinary and theoretical relationships
	11. Law and sociology
		Introduction
		Law and sociology nexus
		Observational research in court
		The National Court Observation Study
		Reflections on research design
		Court observations and socio-legal research
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgements
		Suggested further readings
		References
	12. Law and social psychology methods
		Introduction
		Research on legal negotiation and procedural justice
		Antecedents of procedural justice in legal negotiation: the instant project
		Future directions
		Appendix A
		Further readings
		References
	13. Socio-legal studies and economics
		Introduction
		Socio-legal studies and law and economics
		Post-crash law and economics
		Conclusion
		Recommended reading
		References
	14. Law and anthropology
		Introduction
		Anthropology and ethnography
		Acase study: law and anthropology in arefugee camp
		Identity and positionality
		Law, anthropology and the future of interdisciplinarity in the UK
		Further reading
		References
	15. Doing ‘law in/and development’: theoretical, methodological and 
ethical reflections
		Introduction
		Sixty years of law and development scholarship: an overview of the field
		Reflections on ‘doing’ law and development today: asocio-legal study of natural resource-based development in Mongolia, and how it came about
		Identifying the theoretical, methodological and ethical stakes of research: what, how and why
		Conclusion: prepositions versus conjunctions and why they matter for socio-legal research in law and/in development
		Suggestions for Further Reading:
		Reference list
	16. Qualitative data and the challenges of interpretation in transitional 
justice research
		Introduction
		Naming the unknowable: qualitative methodologies in transitional justice research
		Challenges as findings: reflecting on qualitative methods in transitional justice research field experiences
		Some reflections on unsettling “the expert” in transitional justice research
		Recommended further reading
		Reference List
	17. Reading law spatially
		Legal geography
		Methodology within legal geography
		Reading law spatially
		Applying the method
		Conclusion: imaginative leaps
		References
	18. Legal concepts in flux: the social construction of legal meaning
		Introduction: socio-legal approaches to the study of legal change
		Exploring changes in legal meaning: using discourse analysis
		Demarcating law-changing ‘discourse’: the autonomy of legal meaning
		How to approach case studies for discourse analysis– tracing change in legal meaning through the case of the ‘infiltrator’ in Israel
		Case study findings
		Conclusion
		Further reading
		References
		Laws
		Cases
		Legislative Committee Meetings
	19. Feminist approaches to socio-legal studies
		Introduction
		Writing feminist judgments
		Feminist judgment projects as socio-legal methodology
		The wider socio-legal significance of feminist judgments
		Conclusion and further references
		Further reading
		References
	20. Intersectionality as theory and method: human rights adjudication by the European Court of Human Rights
		Introduction
		Intersectionality, methodology and method: an overview
		Methods
		Intersectionality and international human rights
		The European Court of Human Rights reinforcing intersectional discrimination against visibly Muslim women
		Conclusion
		Further reading
		References
PART III: Methodological choices
	21. Encountering the archive: researching race, racialisation and the death penalty in England and Wales, 1900–65
		Introduction
		Encountering the archive
		Sources of crime history
		The case of Lee Kun
		Reconstructing the Lee Kun case from the archives
		Reading race in the Lee Kun case
		Conclusion
		Further reading
		References
	22. Law, the environment and narrative storytelling
		Introduction
		Narrative storytelling and environmental harm
		Law and narrative storytelling
		Narrative method, environmental harm and NGOs
		Case study: ClientEarth versus the UK government
		Narrative analysis Stage 1: basic case story
		Narrative analysis Stage 2: discourse level
		Stage 3: interpretative context
		Conclusion: narrative method, environmental harm and beyond
		Further reading
		References
	23. Legal aesthetics as visual method
		Introduction
		Overview: law as avisual phenomenon
		Case study: Tom Kaczynski’s ‘White Noise’
		Wider relevance: towards areflexive legality
		Further reading
		References
	24. A content analysis of judicial decision-making
		Introduction
		An introduction to content analysis
		Lessons from our experience
		The value of the method
		Recommended reading
		References
	25. Intellectual property, biotechnology and process tracing: applying political research methods to legal study
		Introduction: studying the politics of law-making
		Process tracing: explaining legal change
		Process tracing in socio-legal research: theoretical and methodological synthesis
		Improving the analysis: lessons learned and refining the approach
		Process tracing and socio-legal research: the broader implications
		Conclusions and further reading
		Suggested further reading
		References
	26. Experiments in criminal justice contexts
		Introduction
		Experimental designs
		Statistical analysis
		Case studies
		Validity in experiments
		Limitations of experimental methods
		Afinal word
		Recommended reading list
		References
	27. Legal epidemiology, evidence-informed law and administrative data: new frontiers in the study of family justice
		Introduction
		Epidemiology
		Legal epidemiology and evidence-informed law
		Unto the breach
		Conclusion
		Further reading
		References
	28. Socio-legal approaches to online hate speech
		Hate speech: adefinitional challenge
		Methodological approaches to researching hate speech online
		Apractical example: studying hate speech around elections
		Conclusion
		Further reading
		References
Index