Research Methods for Contract Law and Scholarship

Edited by Yuliya Chernykh, Full Professor of Law, University of Inland Norway, Norway and Joshua Karton, Full Professor and Associate Dean, Faculty of Law, Queen’s University, Canada

‘This book gives a valuable insight into a variety of research methods that are available or emerging in the field of contract law. Showing how interdisciplinarity may address issues arising from the increasing complexity of society, the book is a precious contribution to contract law research.’

• ContentsIntroduction: everything is interconnected – can we understandcontracts from only one perspective? 1Yuliya Chernykh and Joshua KartonPART I INTERNAL PERSPECTIVES1 Doctrinal methods in contract law in civil law jurisdictions 14Osny da Silva Filho2 Doctrinal methods in contract law in common law jurisdictions 37Jeff Berryman3 Comparative methods in contract law 64Yuliya Chernykh and Mads Andenæs4 Philosophical methods in contract law 90Johan Vorland WibyePART II EXTERNAL PERSPECTIVES5 Historical approaches to contract law 116Victoria Barnes and Sally Wheeler6 Empirical methods in contract law 136Monika Leszczyńska7 Law and economics methods and techniques in contract law 158Mitja Kovac8 The experimental methods in contract law 184Sergio MittlaenderPART III CHALLENGING THEMES/PERSPECTIVES9 Research methods for contracts and sustainability 210Katerina Mitkidis10 Research methods for contract law and technology 235Pietro Ortolani11 Research methods for 21st-century consumer contracts: newwines, old bottles? 256Cǎtǎlin-Gabriel Stǎnescu and Liviu Damsa12 Research methods for contracts in Indigenous legal orders 288Alan Hanna13 Research methods for transnational contract law 317Joshua Karton