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Research » center for the study of law & society » empirical research methods workshops » comparative socio-legal for the study of law and society miniseries in empirical research , april 1, 2011, 9 a. Lunch to seminar room, 2240 piedmont avenue, nelkendistinguished professor of legal institutions and social change, university of macerata, italy; distinguished research professor of law, university of cardiff, importance of understanding how law is lived and understood in other places can hardly be overestimated in a globalizing world with ever more frequent legal transfers involving impositions, borrowing, or collaborations, and attempts to change other people’s legal systems or one’s own in the light of theirs. I shall also be concerned with how to use qualitative research methods so to problematize the use of ‘socio-legal indicators’ and evaluate macro-level claims about social i emigrated from the uk to italy twenty years ago i suffered a profound socio-legal ‘culture shock’.

Much of my work since has concentrated on trying to make sense of ‘legal culture’ in italy. But it has also led me to ask about the meaning and applicability of the concept of legal culture more generally, to seek to understand similarities and differences in the way law is lived in other societies, and the possibilities and consequences of attempts to impose global prescriptions and two main issues i should like to discuss are:1. What are the strengths and weaknesses of the research methods described as ‘virtual comparison’, ‘researching there’, and ‘being there’?

We shall also ask about the use of the term ‘legal culture’ for understanding differences in legal practices and outcomes such as differences in court times or what is called corruption (see the articles on legal culture and on corruption as governance). In chapter 6 of comparative criminal justice, i provide brief summaries of articles by feest and murayama, johnson, and cain in the earlier book, as illustrations of the methods of ‘virtual comparison’, ‘researching there’ and ‘living there’ we shall also consider william twining’s contrast of the relative ease with which the concept of human rights can be applied cross culturally as compared to the term corruption (see his paper ”have concepts, will travel”). How would the matters discussed by scholars using one of the research methods have been tackled differently using one of the other two methods?

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