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Academic Collaborations In The Americas: Some Reflections On The Political Economy Of Legal Knowledge, Colin Crawford, Daniel Bonilla Maldonado
Academic Collaborations In The Americas: Some Reflections On The Political Economy Of Legal Knowledge, Colin Crawford, Daniel Bonilla Maldonado
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The article proceeds in three parts. The first, the articles’ analytical heart, considers the political economy of legal knowledge. It describes briefly the free market of legal ideas and the colonial model for the production of legal knowledge. It illustrates how these two models work using examples from our “South-North Partnerships” (SNP), that is, our collaborative practices in the creation of legal thought as they play out in the legal academies of the global North and South. The second part is both descriptive and reflective, focusing on four different SNP examples that illustrate challenges in the creation of truly collaborative …
Book Review: The Oxford Handbook Of Empirical Legal Rearch, William T. Gallagher
Book Review: The Oxford Handbook Of Empirical Legal Rearch, William T. Gallagher
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The Oxford Handbook of Empirical Legal Research, edited by Peter Cane and Herbert M. Kritzer, is an excellent scholarly resource that is especially timely given the recent resurgence of interest by (mostly) legal academics in the empirical study of law. As the editors suggest, it is precisely because of this resurgent interest that it is important to understand contemporary empirical legal research in the context of its historical and institutional roots and in light of ongoing scholarly debate about the most appropriate methodologies for conducting this type of research.