The subject of this essay is the empirical studies and their role when undertaking a legal research and to what extent they have priviliges in the legal research.

Essay by BilalSnainehUniversity, Master's February 2004

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CONTENTS

1.Introduction.................................................................3

2.Definition of Empirical Research........................................3

3.Research Design............................................................4

4.Data Collection ............................................................5

5.Qualitative Research ......................................................6

6.Quantitative Research.....................................................8

7.Case Studies................................................................9

8.Particular Issues...........................................................11

8.1 Gaining Access ......................................................11

8.2 Ethics..................................................................11

9. Divorce Law and Empirical studies....................................12

9.1 Misuse of Statistics...................................................13

9.2 International Comparison...........................................14

10. Conclusion................................................................17

Empirical research

1.Introduction:

Traditionally socio-legal scholars have bridged the divide between law and sociology, social policy, and economics. But there is increasing interest in law and disciplines within the field of humanities.

For decades, social scientists have sought to improve the quality of their research by perfecting scientific procedures. They found the experimental design strategies used in physical and biological sciences to be instructive and helpful. During this time, the strategies of randomization, control groups, and experimental designs became popular and accepted. However, scientists were soon disappointed, for although they learned a great deal, they found that this positivist approach to scientific research actually limited their thinking and overlooked valuable data.

Consequently, other scientific procedures emerged that also proved to be applicable to social science inquiry.

2.Definition of Empirical Research:

Empirical research is any research involving the collection of new data .

It is also the subject that is studied on "Research Methods" courses, which study the different ways in which theory can be linked to empirical evidence. Gerry Rose suggests that the two basic ways are through "theory testing", when empirical evidence is used to test a theory; and "theory construction", when the empirical evidence is used to help construct new theories.

Accordingly, methodology deals with the methods and principles used in an activity, in this case research. In the methodology chapter the researcher explain how he did the research, the methods of data collection, materials used, subjects interviewed, or places he visited. Give a detailed...