Table of Contents

1. Legal Doctrine: Which Method(s) for What Kind of Discipline? Mark Van Hoecke 2. The Method of a Truly Normative Legal Science Jaap Hage 3. Explanatory Non-Normative Legal Doctrine. Taking the Distinction between Theoretical and Practical Reason Seriously Anne Ruth Mackor 4. A World without Law Professors Mathias M Siems 5. Open or Autonomous? The Debate on Legal Methodology as a Reflection of the Debate on Law Pauline C Westerman 6. Methodology of Legal Doctrinal Research: A Comment on Westerman Jan Vranken 7. The Epistemological Function of 'la Doctrine' Horatia Muir Watt 8. Maps, Methodologies and Critiques: Confessions of a Contract Lawyer Roger Brownsword 9. Legal Research and the Distinctiveness of Comparative Law John Bell 10. Does One Need an Understanding of Methodology in Law Before One Can Understand Methodology in Comparative Law? Geoffrey Samuel 11. Comparative Law, Legal Linguistics and Methodology of Legal Doctrine Jaakko Husa 12. Doing What Doesn't Come Naturally. On the Distinctiveness of Comparative Law Maurice Adams 13. Promises and Pitfalls of Interdisciplinary Legal Research: The Case of Evolutionary Analysis in Law Bart Du Laing 14. Behavioural Economics and Legal Research Julie De Coninck 15. Theory and Object in Law: the Case for Legal Scholarship as Indirect Speech Bert Van Roermund

About the Author

Mark Van Hoecke is a research Professor at the Universities of Ghent and Tilburg.