Research Group For Advanced Legal Methods

The Research Group on Advanced Legal Methods brings together Law Faculty members interested in issues of jurisprudence, theory, and method to promote the development of theoretical and methodological insights in our scholarship, the teaching and PhD program, and the Faculty in general. On this website, you will find information about our research group agenda.

The Research Group on Advanced Legal Methods (‘ALM’) is intended to co-ordinate research development efforts in relation to legal theory and method and contribute with furthering an inspiring environment for methodology and theory interested researchers. It seeks to do so by uniting expertise across faculty research centers. 

ALM focuses on legal theory broadly understood as comprising classic legal theory (i.e. jurisprudence) but also general philosophy (epistemology and ontology) and interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks (drawn from sociology, anthropology, computer science etc). 

ALM focuses on method as comprising legal (i.e. monodisciplinary, doctrinal) and interdisciplinary (e.g. law and economics; socio-legal; legal network science, etc.) methodologies, and seeks to investigate new possibilities for cross-fertilization. ALM considers theory and method as two interdependent elements of research design and will seek to unravel their (sometime tacit) presence and mutual connectedness in our academic practice. 

ALM will support developing theoretical basis for research projects in various domains of the faculty’s research projects for those that are theoretical, doctrinal, or empirical.  ALM is intended to develop insights not solely on the application of a method within a specific project, but rather to support the greater development of methodological perspective(s) for those that choose to participate.