Pluralising International Legal Scholarship The Promise and Perils of Non-Doctrinal Research Methods
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Edited by Rossana Deplano, Professor of Law, University of Leicester, UK<i>'This volume acts as an important and provocative invitation to international legal scholars to take non-doctrinal methods seriously. The various contributions, as diverse as they are, come together in a call for methodological self-reflexiveness, scientific rigour in empirical data collection and analysis, and to consider the real world impacts of international laws and institutions, as well as the social and cultural context in which such laws and institutions develop and evolve.'</i><br /> --Richard Collins, University College Dublin, Ireland<p><i>'The stakes are high: different methods make different worlds. Still, Deplano and her contributors avoid the snares of a disciplinary turf war and practice a plurality of methods instead. That is the way to proceed.'</i><br /> --Ingo Venzke, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands</p>
The book examines whether non-doctrinal methods promise certainty and objectivity. Chapters explore how adopting social research methods allows artificial landscapes of international law to be constructed, with the aim of aiding our understanding of its normative content. In doing so, the contributors place the normative content of international law into the realm of scientific investigation, providing a critical distance from its principled roots. This insightful book argues that any research methodology, whether doctrinal or non-doctrinal, involves a necessarily partial and incomplete vision of international law. Hence, the critical variation provided by non-doctrinal methods is a useful means for supplementing, rather than replacing, doctrinal analysis.
Accessible and engaging, Pluralising International Legal Scholarship will be a key resource for international law scholars, especially those specializing in legal methods. The interdisciplinary nature of the study will also appeal to students and academics working in the fields of international relations, international organization and social research methodology.
Contributors include: R. Deplano, M. Dordeska, E.A. Faulkner, G. Gentile, H. Lai, S. Landefeld, G.M. Lentner, L. Lonardo, A. Magaria, J. Ostransky