Kinds of Legal Research:

 Kinds of Legal Research:

Descriptive and Analytical Legal Research

The former describes the state of affairs as it exists. It describes the phenomenon, reporting what has happened or what is happening, without going into the reason or cause for the same. The tools used are surveys, comparative and co-relational methods and fact- finding enquiries.  But  it  does  not  establish  any  relationship  between  the  variables.  The analytical research however uses the facts and information available to make a critical evaluation.

 

Applied and Pure Legal Research

The aim of the researcher is to find a solution to a pressing practical problem at hand. Pure research identifies new ideas, theories, principles and new ways of thinking. Applied research is based on the theories, principles discovered through pure research. Finding of pure research usually have a future use, not a current use.

 

Quantitative and Qualitative Legal Research

Qualitative research is a subjective form of research relying on the analysis of controlled observations of the researcher. Data is not analyzed with statistical techniques. Usually, narrative data is collected in qualitative research. Quantitative, or numerical, empirical legal research involves taking information about cases and courts, translating that information into numbers, and then analyzing those numbers with statistical tools.

 

 

 

Conceptual and Empirical Legal Research

The  conceptual  research  is  related  with  an  abstract  notion  or  an  idea.  Generally resorted  to  by  the  philosophers  and  thinkers  to  develop  new  concepts  or  re- interpret  the  existing  concepts. whereas empirical research involves research based on observation, experiments and verifiable evidence. Conceptual research and empirical research are two ways of doing scientific research.

Doctrinal Legal Research

Doctrinal research is therefore established as the traditional genre of research in legal field. Also known as, theory-testing or knowledge building research in the legal academia, it deals with studying existing laws, related cases and authoritative materials analytically on some specific matter. Doctrinal research is a theoretical study where mostly secondary source of data are used to seek to answer one or two legal propositions or questions or doctrines.

 

Non-doctrinal Legal Research

Non-doctrinal research, also known as social-legal research, is research that employs methods taken from other disciplines to generate empirical data that answers research questions. It can be a problem, policy, or a reform of the existing law.  It  employs  methods  taken  from  other  disciplines  in  order  to  generation  an  empirical  data  to  answer  the  questions.

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