Research Methods in International Law

Edited by Rossana Deplano, Professor of Law, University of Leicester, UK and Nicholas Tsagourias, Professor of International Law, University of Sheffield, UK

‘Overall, Research Methods in International Law provides readers with a bold collection of scholarship that studies the lenses through which we comprehend international law. The readings demonstrate how modern methodologies in the field of international law have evolved to take an interdisciplinary approach, changing the theory and altering the way the law is accessed by both practitioners and scholars.’

• Contents:1 Introduction 1Rossana Deplano and Nicholas TsagouriasPART I RETHINKING METHODS2 How to defend international legal method? 9Richard Collins3 Transatlantic divisions in methods of inquiry about law: Whatit means for international law 28John Linarelli4 International legal methods: Working for a tragic and cynical routine 43Jean d’Aspremont5 Methodology: Writing about how we do research 61Sundhya Pahuja6 Is international legal research international? 79Rossana DeplanoPART II DOCTRINAL7 International legal positivist research methods 96Jörg Kammerhofer8 Microwaving dreams? Why there is no point in reheating theHart-Dworkin debate for international law 112Jason Beckett9 Revisiting the New Haven methodology from an internationallaw and policy perspective 132Fozia Nazir Lone10 Applying a natural law-method to international law 148Jacob Giltaij11 Marxist international law methodology? 162Bill Bowring12 International law and nervous states in the age of anger, thecollapse of legal formalism and a return to natural law 181Anthony CartyPART III EMPIRICAL AND SOCIO-LEGAL13 The computational analysis of international law 204Wolfgang Alschner14 Process-tracing the meaning of international human rights law 229Natalie R. Davidson15 Experimental methodology in international law and theefficacy of international fact-finding: Evidence from the U.S.and Israel 245Shiri Krebs16 Tracing influence in international law: Beyond the antagonismbetween doctrine of law and social science 266Maiko MeguroPART IV COMPARATIVE17 Comparative international constitutional law and its methodology 284Nicholas Tsagourias18 Exploring African Union law through the lenses ofcomparative law: A comparative analysis with European Union law 303Olufemi Amao and Matthew Chidebe Nwankwo19 Qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) as an empiricalmethod for international law 327Pablo Castillo-OrtizPART V INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH20 From interdisciplinary to x-disciplinary methodology ofinternational law 346Outi Korhonen21 Economic analysis of international law 367Anne van Aaken and Ivana Stradner22 The philosophy of international law 386Stephen Riley23 Third World Approaches to International Law: Betweentheory and method 403Justine Bendel24 Global constitutionalism as a method in international economic law 417Andreas. R. Ziegler and Xinyan Zhao25 Sociological objectivism: Still relevant? 437Vassilis P Tzevelekos and Antal Berkes26 Feminist methodologies 459Gina Heathcote and Paola Zichi27 What are you looking at? Documentary film and international law 475Wouter Werner28 International law and diplomacy 488Iakovos IakovidisIndex