Larouche on Global Legal Scholarship

A Vision of Global Legal Scholarship

Pierre Larouche 

Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC); College of Europe - Bruges; Tilburg University - Tilburg Law School; Center on Regulation in Europe (CERRE)
October 8, 2012

TILEC Discussion Paper No. 2012-034 
Abstract:      
Global legal scholarship should aim to be both post-national and inter-disciplinary. By post-national, we imply that it should rise above national legal systems and cover a more abstract corpus of knowledge about law, of which national legal systems would be an application. By inter-disciplinary, we mean that legal scholarship is enhanced by a deeper understanding of other sciences, without merging with any of them. This places global legal scholarship in a ‘sweet spot’, between traditional national legal scholarship and other social sciences. In order to retain its strong link with reality, global legal scholarship should also espouse empirical research methods.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 11

Keywords: legal scholarship, global law, comparative law, inter-disciplinarity, empirical

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