As legal research and scholarship are increasingly turning to interdisciplinary approaches, the question arises as to how to introduce quantitative research techniques to a student population usually unfamiliar with empirical methods. We argue that classroom experiments form an effective — and, from the perspective of students, attractive — way to teach law students the logic of empirical inquiry. Many questions and controversies on and around adjudication and the impact of legal regulations hinge on matters of beliefs and behaviour which experimental methods are well-suited to investigate. Moreover, experimental legal research is fairly intuitive and does not require advanced statistical knowledge. Thanks to modern software tools, experiments can be conducted and analysed in the classroom without much prior technical knowledge. We provide basic guidance on how to undertake in-class experimental legal research and discuss examples of in-class experiments on gender effects, anchoring effects and neutrality bias.

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课堂上的实验性法律方法

随着法律研究和学术越来越转向跨学科方法，出现了一个问题，即如何向通常不熟悉经验方法的学生群体引入定量研究技术。我们认为，课堂实验是一种有效的方法，并且从学生的角度来看，也很有吸引力。这种方法可以教法律学生进行实证研究的逻辑。关于裁决及其周围的许多问题和争议，以及法律法规的影响，取决于信念和行为问题，而实验方法是非常适合调查的问题。而且，实验性法律研究是相当直观的，不需要高级统计知识。借助现代软件工具，无需大量的技术知识就可以在教室中进行实验和分析。