Introduction
Curriculum
Approaches to Legal Research
As of 2024, the Max Planck Law Curriculum comprises a short residential course on ‘Approaches to Legal Research’ in May at Harnack House (Berlin).
Participants will have the opportunity to engage with topics including comparative perspectives, the uses of legal history, anthropological and sociological approaches, the economic analysis of law, quantitative approaches to legal research, and critical perspectives. Directors and postdocs from the nine Institutes in the Max Planck Law network will present the sessions. The event will also feature an after-dinner roundtable discussion on the challenges and rewards of interdisciplinarity in legal research.
For more opportunities to engage with questions around methods and methodology, researchers are also encouraged to join the events organized by the Legal Research Methods Initiative.