Introduction 1
PART Ⅰ: SURVEYING EMPIRICAL LEGAL RESEARCH 11
1.The Art, Craft, and Science of Policing&MARTIN INNES 11
2.Crime and Criminals&WESLEY SKOGAN 37
3.Criminal Process and Prosecution&JACQUELINE HODGSON AND ANDREW ROBERTS 64
4.The Crime-Preventive Impact of Penal Sanctions&ANTHONY BOTTOMS AND ANDREW VON HIRSCH 96
5.Contracts and Corporations&SALLY WHEELER 125
6.Financial Markets&JULIA BLACK 151
7.Consumer Protection&STEPHEN MEILI 176
8.Bankruptcy and Insolvency&ROBERT M.LAWLESS AND ELIZABETH WARREN 198
9.Regulating the Professions&LINDA HALLER 216
10.Personal Injury Litigation&PAUL FENN AND NEIL RICKMAN 235
11.Claiming Behavior as Legal Mobilization&HERBERT M.KRITZER 260
12.Families&MAVIS MACLEAN 285
13.Labor and Employment Laws&SIMON DEAKIN 308
14.Housing and Property&DAVID COWAN 331
15.Human Rights Instruments&LINDA CAMP KEITH 353
16.Constitutions&DAVID S.LAW 376
17.Social Security and Social Welfare&MICHAEL ADLER 399
18.Occupational Safety and Health&BRIDGET M.HUTTER 424
19.Environmental Regulation&CARY COGLIANESE AND CATHERINE COURCY 449
20.Administrative Justice&SIMON HALLIDAY AND COLIN SCOTT 469
21.Access to Civil Justice&RODERICK A.MACDONALD 492
22.Judicial Recruitment, Training, and Careers&PETER H.RUSSELL 522
23.Trial Courts and Adjudication&SHARYN ROACH ANLEU AND KATHY MACK 545
24.Appellate Courts&DAVID ROBERTSON 571
25.Dispute Resolution&CARRIE J.MENKEL-MEADOW 596
26.Lay Decision-Makers in the Legal Process&NEIL VIDMAR 625
27.Evidence Law&GARY EDMOND AND DAVID HAMER 652
28.Civil Procedure and Courts&CARRIE J.MENKEL-MEADOW AND BRYANT G.GARTH 679
29.Collective Actions&CHRISTOPHER HODGES 705
30.Law and Courts’ Impact on Development and Democratization&CATALINA SMULOVITZ 729
31.How Does International Law Work?&TOM GINSBURG AND GREGORY SHAFFER 753
32.Lawyers and Other Legal Service Providers&RICHARD MOORHEAD 785
33.Legal Pluralism&MARGARET DAVIES 805
34.Public Images and Understandings of Courts&JAMES L.GIBSON 828
35.Legal Education and the Legal Academy&FIONA COWNIE 854
PART Ⅱ: DOING AND USING EMPIRICAL LEGAL RESEARCH 875
36.The （Nearly） Forgotten Early Empirical Legal Research&HERBERT M.KRITZER 875
37.Quantitative Approaches to Empirical Legal Research&LEE EPSTEIN AND ANDREW D.MARTIN 901
38.Qualitative Approaches to Empirical Legal Research&LISA WEBLEY 926
39.The Need for Multi-Method Approaches in Empirical Legal Research&LAURA BETH NIELSEN 951
40.Legal Theory and Empirical Research&D.J.GALLIGAN 976
41.Empirical Legal Research and Policy-making&MARTIN PARTINGTON 1002
42.The Place of Empirical Legal Research in the Law School Curriculum&ANTHONY BRADNEY 1025
43.Empirical Legal Training in the U.S.Academy&CHRISTINE B.HARRINGTON AND SALLY ENGLE MERRY 1044
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