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1. Legal Doctrine： Which Method（s） for What Kind of Discipline？&Mark Van Hoecke 1

Ⅰ. Historical Developments 1

Ⅱ. What Kind of Discipline is Legal Doctrine？ 4

Ⅲ. Which Methodology for Legal Research？ 11

Ⅳ. Conclusion 17

2. The Method of a Truly Normative Legal Science&Jaap Hage 19

Ⅰ. Preliminaries 20

Ⅱ. The Possibility of a Normative Science 28

Ⅲ. The Method of a Truly Normative Legal Science 40

Ⅳ. Conclusion 43

3. Explanatory Non-Normative Legal Doctrine. Taking the Distinction between Theoretical and Practical Reason Seriously&Anne Ruth Mackor 45

Ⅰ. Introduction 45

Ⅱ. Theoretical and Practical Reason 46

Ⅲ. Explanatory Legal Doctrine 48

Ⅳ. Normative Legal Doctrine 58

Ⅴ. Conclusion 69

4. A World without Law Professors&Mathias M Siems 71

Ⅰ. Introduction 71

Ⅱ. Legal Training and Education 72

Ⅲ. Legal Research and Writing 78

Ⅳ. Analysis： What Next ？ 85

5. Open or Autonomous？ The Debate on Legal Methodology as a Reflection of the Debate on Law&Pauline C Westerman 87

Ⅰ. Introduction 87

Ⅱ. The Problem of the Lacking Third 88

Ⅲ. Legal System as Theoretical Framework 90

Ⅳ. Legal Doctrine and Legal Science 94

Ⅴ. The Quest for Ongoing Abstraction 95

Ⅵ. Empty Autonomy 97

Ⅶ. Revenge of Reality 101

Ⅷ. The Need for an Empirical Orientation 105

Ⅸ. An Empirical Legal Doctrine？ 108

6. Methodology of Legal Doctrinal Research： A Comment on Westerman&Jan Vranken 111

Ⅰ. Introduction 111

Ⅱ. The Identity of Subject and Theoretical Framework： Four Objections 114

Ⅲ. Methodological Consequences 118

7. The Epistemological Function of ‘la Doctrine’&Horatia Muir W 123

Ⅰ. On the Choice， as a Topic， of the Epistemological FunctionPlayed Out in French Legal Tradition by ‘la Doctrine’ 123

Ⅱ. The Current Debates over the Existence and Future of ‘la Doctrine’ and why they are Significant 125

Ⅲ. How the Emergence of ‘la Doctrine’ is Linked to the Decline of the Code and the Massification of ‘la Jurisprudence’ 126

Ⅳ. How the Changing Relationship between Law and the other Social Sciences is Relevant to the Rise of ‘la Doctrine’ and to the Subsequent Shaping of Legal Knowledge 128

Ⅴ. Why ‘la Doctrine’ is Threatened Today in its Interpretative Function 129

Ⅵ. Why the Current Crisis may be for the Better- and may be Good for Comparative Legal Research 131

8. Maps， Methodologies and Critiques： Confessions of a Contract Lawyer&Roger Brownsword 133

Ⅰ. Introduction 133

Ⅱ. An Ideological Understanding of Adjudication and of Contract Law 135

Ⅲ. The Rationality of Contract Law 137

Ⅳ. The Underlying Ethic of Contract Law 139

Ⅴ. The Fit between Doctrine and Business Organisation 143

Ⅵ. The Consent-Based Nature of Contractual Obligation 145

Ⅶ. The Mission of Protecting Reasonable Expectations 146

Ⅷ. Contract and the Larger Regulatory Environment 148

Ⅸ. Conclusion 152

9. Legal Research and the Distinctiveness of Comparative Law&John Bell 155

Ⅰ. Introduction： Legal Research as a Normative Social Science 155

Ⅱ. Hermeneutic Approach to Legal Research 158

Ⅲ. The Institutional Character of Law 161

Ⅳ. The Interpretative Character of Law 164

Ⅴ Implications for Comparative Law 167

Ⅵ . Conclusion 175

10 . Does One Need an Understanding of Methodology in Law Before One Can Understand Methodology in Comparative Law？&Geoffrey Samuel 177

Ⅰ. The Problem of Interdisciplinarity 178

Ⅱ. Methodology and the Status of Comparative Law 182

Ⅲ. Methodology and Epistemology in the Social Sciences 188

Ⅳ. Methodology and Epistemology in Law 192

Ⅴ. Positivism （Causality） Versus Hermeneutics 194

Ⅵ. Positivism （Causality） Versus Dialectics 198

Ⅶ. Positivism versus Actionalism and Objectification 200

Ⅷ. Paradigm Authoritarianism Versus Comparative Studies 205

11. Comparative Law， Legal Linguistics and Methodology of Legal Doctrine&Jaakko Husa 209

Ⅰ. Introduction 209

Ⅱ. Background of Functionalism 212

Ⅲ. From Rabel to Zweigert and Kotz 215

Ⅳ. Legal Languages and Functionalism 223

Ⅴ. Conclusion 227

12. Doing What Doesn’t Come Naturally. On the Distinctiveness of Comparative Law&Maurice Adams 229

Ⅰ. ‘Doing’ Law is Immutably Comparative 229

Ⅱ.‘And Yet it Moves！’ 230

Ⅲ. Explanatory Comparative Law and Interdisciplinarity 235

Ⅳ To Conclude 239

13. Promises and Pitfalls of Interdisciplinary Legal Research： The Case of Evolutionary Analysis in Law&Bart Du Laing 241

Ⅰ. Introduction 241

Ⅱ. Contemporary Evolutionary Approaches to Human Behaviour and Evolutionary Analysis in Law 244

Ⅲ. Taxonomising Evolutionary Analyses in Law： Three Questions 248

14. Behavioural Economics and Legal Research&Julie De Coninck 257

Ⅰ. Introduction 257

Ⅱ. Behavioural Economics 258

Ⅲ. Behavioural Law and Economics 262

Ⅳ. Closing Remarks 275

15. Theory and Object in Law： the Case for Legal Scholarship as Indirect Speech&Bert Van Roermund 277

Ⅰ. Legal Scholarship Pre-Determined by the Law it Investigates？ 278

Ⅱ. Theoretical Language as Meta-Language？ 282

Ⅲ. Some Implications 284

Index 287