Critical Evaluation of methodologies and their usefulness for aacademic legal research: An Essay: Social science methodologies in legal research

An essay which is perfect for those undertaking academic legal research for the first time or seeking to understand methodologies from an academic legal perspective, including but not limited to, those writing a dissertation for an LLB, an LLM of Mphil thesis. This essay includes analysis of ethnography, feminist research and quantitative methods.

In engaging in research on the different types of research, from a legal backgroun, I discovered that many in the academic legal world, regard feminist research as "ranting women with little point" and social science research as "a mickey mouse method." This essay should give the reader an insight into the reasons why should methods can be used postively in legal scholarly writing.