The empirical turn in international legal scholarship

<div class="page" title="Page 195"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>This article presents and assesses a new wave of em- pirical research on international law. Recent scholar- ship has moved away from theoretic...

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Main Authors: Gregory Shaffer, Tom Ginsburg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Rede de Pesquisa Empírica em Direito 2015-07-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Empirical Legal Studies
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Online Access:http://www.reedpesquisa.org/ojs-2.4.3/index.php/reed/article/view/80
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Summary:<div class="page" title="Page 195"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>This article presents and assesses a new wave of em- pirical research on international law. Recent scholar- ship has moved away from theoretical debates over whether international law “matters,” and focuses in- stead on exploring the conditions under which inter- national law is created and produces effects. As this empirical research program has matured, it has al- lowed for new, midlevel theorizing that we call “conditional international law theory”. </span></p></div></div></div>
ISSN:2319-0817
2319-0817