Legal Research Mathodology

Preface Legal research methodology is a structured approach to discovering and applying legal information to resolve legal problems. It involves systematic research, analysis, and interpretation of legal sources to provide a comprehensive understanding of a legal issue. The process includes identifying the legal problem, locating relevant legal materials, analyzing those materials, and synthesizing the findings into a clear and concise conclusion. Legal research means to search or to find out and examine again about the law. This is the very essence of the process of acquiring new knowledge in field of law. Legal research means scientific and systematic re-examination of existing facts or knowledge to ascertain whether the existing conclusion can be varied or not. The dictionary meaning of legal research is, “a careful investigation or inquiry specifically. through search for new facts in law branch of knowledge The purpose of research is to discover, translate and develop human knowledge to advance the affluence of legal education and research. Legal Research Methodology is specially designed for students pursuing LL.B. (3 years and 5 years), LL.M. and Ph.D. courses. According to the current trends in research and research ethics, methods and techniques of identification and formulation of research problem; the book discusses the collection and analysis of literature, research design and report writing, presumption and construction of hypothesis, plagiarism, jurisprudence of judicial mechanism in legal research. New dimensions in legal research are new to this edition of the book. Inclusion of new chapters on Doctrinal and Empirical Research, Socio Legal and Comparative Research, Review of Literature, Tools and Techniques of Data Collection, Legal Reasoning and Factor Analysis. etc. will ensure this work lays down new milestones in research methodology. The book will also be an interesting reference for students with no previous experience or knowledge of research methodology and for researchers whose knowledge in research methodology is limited. Dr. Chunuram Soren