ABSTRACT

Despite the growth in scholarship in the broad field of law as performance, there is little critical attention paid to methodologies of research. With attention to the growing research in this field, this paper shall consider methodological approaches to law as performance. This paper considers how traditional qualitative methodologies, such as ethnographic observations, case studies and comparative analysis, are used in law as performance studies. The paper then goes on to consider different methodologies, such as narrative, story-telling and also performance- or practice-led research, which position the legal researcher as practitioner and are under-utilized within legal research. There are difficulties posed by these new methodologies, including framing research questions, demonstrating generalizable claims, and dealing with the subjectivity of analysis. The paper considers how performance practitioners have overcome these difficulties to create performance-led research that yields new understandings, and how these approaches could be brought to bear on the performance of law.

摘要

尽管作为绩效的广泛法律领域的奖学金有所增长，但对研究方法论的关注却很少。随着对该领域不断增长的研究的关注，本文将考虑法律作为绩效的方法论方法。本文考虑了传统的定性方法，如民族志观察、案例研究和比较分析，如何在法律中用作绩效研究。然后，本文继续考虑不同的方法论，例如叙述、讲故事以及以绩效或实践为导向的研究，这些方法将法律研究人员定位为从业者，但在法律研究中未得到充分利用。这些新方法带来了困难，包括构建研究问题、证明可概括的主张、处理分析的主观性。本文考虑了绩效从业者如何克服这些困难来创建以绩效为导向的研究，从而产生新的理解，以及如何将这些方法用于法律的绩效。