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Doctrinal Legal Research

2023
This chapter is an attempt to provide a basic understanding to law researchers of doctrinal legal research. The chapter is drafted in such a manner that it will give a systematic approach to acquainted with the doctrinal legal research. It includes the brief historical background, purpose, and steps to conduct doctrinal legal research, tools that are ...
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Legal Realism and Legal Doctrine

2020
Legal realism is popularly known for its hostility to legal doctrine. In the familiar narrative, the realists showed that legal doctrine does not, and cannot, constrain judges from using existing legal materials to reach virtually any outcome they want. As such, doctrine only serves to hides and obfuscate what is better discussed openly. The purpose of
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Doctrinal Legal Research

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2018
Lawyers, judges and jurists have widely been using doctrinal research as a systematic means of legal reasoning since the nineteenth century. Doctrinal research is therefore established as the traditional genre of research in the legal field. Also known as theory-testing or knowledge- building research in legal academia, it deals with studying existing ...
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Legal Theory and Legal Doctrinal Scholarship

Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence, 2008
The essay is an attempt to clarify some issues concerning the point of doing conceptual legal theory. It provides a reassessment of the relationship between conceptual legal theory, legal doctrinal scholarship and the legal practice. The analysis concentrates on what may be termed the ‘mainstream’ discourse on conceptual legal theory (characterised by ...
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Criminal Legal Doctrine

2018
Legal and moral judgement in the "General Part", Alan Norrie the dummy - an essay on malice prepensed, Yifat Hachamovitch the law of the land - criminal juristiction 1747-1908, Lindsay Farmer from experts in responsibility to advisers on punishment - the role of psychiatrists in penal matters, Gerry Johnstone words with the shaman - on the sacrifice in
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What Is Legal Doctrine?

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015
Although American scholars sometimes consider European legal scholarship as old-fashioned and inward-looking and Europeans often perceive American legal scholarship as amateur social science, both traditions share a joint challenge. If legal scholarship becomes too much separated from practice, legal scholars will ultimately make themselves superfluous.
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Legal Doctrine and Political Control

Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 2005
Much of American legal discourse is driven by concern over how judges should follow or create legal doctrines - decision-making rules established or endorsed by higher courts that stipulate, with varying degrees of specificity, outcomes that should follow from underlying fact patterns.
Tonja Jacobi, Emerson H. Tiller
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Legal Doctrines in Conflict:

Islamic Law and Society, 1996
AbstractAccording to Western legal historians, the closing of the door of Ijtihād shortly after the formation of the law schools resulted in a long period of sterility in Islamic legal thought and rigid adherence to traditional rules in legal practice. But what did Muslim scholars have in mind when they used the term Ijtihād?
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Kelsen's Doctrine of Legality

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014
In this paper I reconstruct Hans Kelsen's doctrine of legality. By legality I mean here, loosely speaking, the requirement that public authority must be exercised in accordance with the law. My reconstruction of Kelsen’s doctrine is guided by two related questions: 1) what does legality require? and 2) how can this effectively be realized?
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Legal History as Doctrinal History

2018
Abstract This chapter investigates the idea of doctrine as a focus of historical scholarship, asking how the doctrinal mentality arose, and how historical approaches to doctrine emerged strongly in both common-law and civilian or Romanistic legal cultures. It first defines the meaning of ‘doctrine’, and sets out a guiding thesis.
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