Legal Research: Approaches, Methods and Techniques

The book talks in detail about the fundamentals of approaches to varied methods and techniques of legal research. The main aim of the book is to equip researchers with a proper understanding of the ways of conducting legal research most efficiently. The main theme of the work is identifying the competence and approach of legal research to analyze the law-society relationship.

Key Features:

• Most of the universities, and institutions including NLU's have included different graded courses on research methodology, resulting in this book being a must.
• The book has 3 broad thematic segments:
  • Part A, deals with the fundamentals of research and of legal research.
  • Part B, Offers a comprehensive account of different approaches, non-doctrinal, and transdisciplinary - legal research.
  • Part C, Deals with different methods and techniques of legal research.
• The beginning of each chapter has, quote(s) reflecting the focal theme of the chapter and the "learning objectives" thus making the book more user-friendly
• The Annexures include the UGC Anti-Plagiarism Regulations, 2018, the UGC Self-Plagiarism Notification, 2020, and citation guidelines.

Extract from the Foreword:

The book aims at equipping researchers with a proper understanding of the ways of conducting legal research most efficiently and is successful in providing the best of lessons for the same. Prof. Vibhute deserves to be profusely congratulated for gifting a greatly useful intellectual instrument to the legal world, where books on legal research by Indian authors is scarce. It is a well-researched work providing valuable guidance for researchers in law towards producing better quality legal research through their enhanced research skill.

- P. Ishwara Bhat
Former Vice-Chancellor, W.B. NUJS, Kolkata
Karnataka State Law University

Table of Contents:

• Table of Cases
• Part A : FUNDAMENTALS OF RESEARCH
  • Research and Methodology: Introduction
  • Legal Research: Nature and Scope
• Part B : APPROACHES TO LEGAL RESEARCH
  • Legal Research: Two Approaches - Doctrinal and Non-Doctrinal Legal Research
  • Legal Research: A Transdisciplinary Approach
• Part C : METHODS AND TECHNIQUES OF LEGAL RESEARCH
  • Statement of Research Problem
  • Hypothesis
  • Research Design
  • Sampling Techniques: Random and Non-Random
  • Basic Tools of Data Collection
  • Analysis and Interpretation of Data
  • Preparing a Research Report
• Part D ANNEXURE
  • UGC Anti-Plagiarism Regulations, 2018
  • UGC Self-Plagiarism Notification, 2020
  • An Instructive and Illustrative Note on the Style of Citation of References
• A Select Bibliography
• Subject Index