Willem H. van Boom
Monograph Chapter
In New Trends in Financing Civil Litigation in Europe
Edited by Mark Tuil and Louis Visscher
- Published in print:
- 28 Dec 2010
Handbook Chapter
In Research Handbook on EU Consumer and Contract Law
Edited by Christian Twigg-Flesner
- Published:
- 30 September 2016
Monograph Chapter
In Mass Justice
Edited by Jenny Steele and Willem H. van Boom
- Published:
- 29 July 2011
Monograph Chapter
In Mass Justice
Edited by Jenny Steele and Willem H. van Boom
- Published:
- 29 July 2011
Mass Justice
Challenges of Representation and Distribution
Edited by Jenny Steele and Willem H. van Boom
Willem H. van Boom, Pieter Desmet and Peter Mascini
Against the backdrop of the steady rise of empirical legal research, this chapter starts by introducing the goal of the volume: to provide lawyers, policy makers and academic researchers with first-hand insights on the possibilities and limitations of different empirical methods for legal questions. The chapter continues by contrasting methods of legal research with methods of empirical legal research and by describing how the latter can complement the former. Subsequently, it describes the three methods of empirical legal research that are addressed in this volume – experiments, surveys and case studies – and links the choice of research strategy to the weighting of different research purposes – control, representativeness and naturalness. It then introduces the chapters to this volume. The chapter ends by discussing the practicality of empirical legal research as a major challenge for bridging gaps between legal scholars and empirical legal scholars.
Monograph Chapter
In Empirical Legal Research in Action
Edited by Willem H. van Boom, Pieter Desmet and Peter Mascini
- Published:
- 29 June 2018