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'What Do Legal Scholars Do All Day?: Doctrinal Knowledge and Legal Doctrinal Scholarship'
Dr Mátyás Bodig from the University of Aberdeen, will talk on 'What Do Legal Scholars Do All Day?: Doctrinal Knowledge and Legal Doctrinal Scholarship', as part of the Law School's research seminar series 2013-14.
My research addresses issues about the methodological foundations of legal doctrinal scholarship. For this research seminar, my starting point is an analysis of the precarious position of legal scholarship in the academia. Legal scholarship does not fit the familiar models of social sciences, policy sciences, or even the humanities. And it has often raised concerns about the epistemic credibility of legal scholarship - no least among legal scholars themselves. I argue that, in fact, legal scholarship has a healthy epistemic core. It cultivates a kind of knowledge that is a common feature of normative social practices, and that is at the heart of the idea of professional legal competence (of ‘what lawyers know’). I call this ‘doctrinal knowledge.’ I make an attempt to develop the idea of specifically ‘doctrinal scholarship’ from an analysis the epistemological features of doctrinal knowledge. I conclude with observations on the prospects of legal doctrinal scholarship in the contemporary disciplinary environment.
- Speaker
- Dr Mátyás Bodig
- Hosted by
- School of Law
- Venue
- Taylor A19