The PhD School, iCourts-Centre of Excellence for International Courts and the Centre for Information and Innovation Law (CIIR) invite all PhD students within the discipline of jurisprudence to a course on

Qualitative Research Methods in Legal Studies

The purpose of this course is to provide students with insight into the design and implementation of (semi-structured) interview techniques, as well as field work within the field of legal studies. Due to what has been labelled an ‘empirical turn in legal scholarship,’ students and researchers within law are increasingly drawing on both quantitative and qualitative research methods in their research. In this wider context, qualitative research methods, such as interviews and ethnographic observation have played a pivotal role for new and emerging scholarship of a number of different legal fields. Here interviews are used to provide an empirically based understanding of the social fabric in which legal practices are embedded and of the very impact of the law in local contexts.

Programme

Time

Three sessions from 15- 17 March 2016:

• Tuesday - 9:30-16:00
• Wednesday - 9:30-16:00
• Thursday - 9:30-13:00

Venue

Meeting room 02-0-16, ground floor, Studiegaarden, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, Studiestræde 6, Copenhagen

ECTS

3 ECTS

Course organizer

• Aaro Tupasela, Associate professor, CIIR and Section for Health Services Research
• Juan A. Mayoral, Postdoctoral researcher, iCourt
• Mikkel Jarle Christiansen, Assistant professor, iCourts

Maximum no. of participants: 20

Signing up

Please sign up by filling in this form
no later than 1 March 2016

Any questions about the course may be directed to Aaro Tupasela (+45 2934 2276 or aatu@sund.ku.dk), Juan A. Mayoral (+45 50112125 or juan.mayoral@jur.ku.dk) and Mikkel Jarle Christiansen (+45 35323109 or mikkel.jarle.christensen@jur.ku.dk).