Interdisciplinary research : are we asking the right questions in legal research?

dc.contributor.editor	VICENTE, Lécia
dc.contributor.editor	MICKLITZ, Hans-Wolfgang
dc.date.accessioned	2015-03-17T09:25:34Z
dc.date.available	2015-03-17T09:25:34Z
dc.date.issued	2015
dc.identifier.issn	1725-6739
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1814/35064
dc.description.abstract	Legal research and legal writing are often informed by preconceptions closely tied to mainstream legal assumptions. Asking the right questions is a much needed exercise to expose ideological and methodological preconceptions in legal research. This compilation of texts draws upon some provocative questions such as: Why legal methodology? Why human rights? Why anti-discrimination? Why social justice? Why efficiency? Why democracy? Why the public / private law divide? Why should international law be law? Why socialise risks? These questions were asked during two popular editions of a seminar called the ‘Why-Seminar’ at the European University Institute. They ended up creating an ‘experimental setting’ where researchers discussed their methodological choices and were challenged to disclose their methodological preconceptions. Interdisciplinarity became an essential, and in many ways, surprising tool to deeply understanding legal phenomena or phenomena with legal reverberance. Interdisciplinary research revealed that serendipity can also be a good ally of the legal researcher.	en
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	EUI LAW	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	2015/04	en
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	en
dc.subject	Interdisciplinary research	en
dc.subject	Legal methodology	en
dc.subject	Legal research	en
dc.subject	Research question	en
dc.subject	Legal problem	en
dc.title	Interdisciplinary research : are we asking the right questions in legal research?	en
dc.type	Working Paper	en