Doctrinal Legal Method
Episode Description
In this episode of Talking about Methods, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Professor Kristin van Zwieten (Faculty of Law, University of Oxford) about the value and limits of doing doctrinal legal research, and how this ‘internal’ perspective and the ‘external’ perspective provided by other socio-legal methodological approaches can complement one another.
Readings Recommended by Professor Kristin van Zwieten
Rubin, E. L. (1997), Law and the Methodology of Law. Wisconsin Law Review 521.
Smith, S. A. (2000), Taking Law Seriously. 50 University of Toronto Law Journal 241.
Sunstein, C. R. (1993), On Analogical Reasoning 106 Harvard Law Review 741.
About the Speaker
Professor Kristin van Zwieten
Professor of Law and Finance, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford
Kristin van Zwieten is Clifford Chance Professor of Law and Finance in the Law Faculty and the Gullifer Fellow at Harris Manchester College. She is Director of the Commercial Law Centre at Harris Manchester College, a Research Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute, and a co-founder and editor of the Oxford Business Law Blog. Prior to taking up her post at Oxford, Kristin was the John Collier Fellow in Law at Trinity Hall, Cambridge.