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It is quite common to characterize legal dogmatics as the discipline that consists of the interpretation and systematization of (valid) legal norms. It is also quite often recognized that legal dogmatics is connected with other kinds of legal research such as sociology of law, history of law, philosophy of law and so on (l). Legal research thus comprises activities of many kinds. In this paper I would like to pay some more detailed attention to that branch of legal research that is called legal dogmatics, or in German ‘Rechtsdogmatik’. In particular I am interested here in the question whether or not legal dogmatics is comparable to empirical social-scientific research.
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de Wild, A.H. (1984). Paradigms of Legal Research Empirical Science and Legal Dogmatics. In: Peczenik, A., Lindahl, L., Roermund, B.V. (eds) Theory of Legal Science. Synthese Library, vol 176. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6481-5_26
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