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The Strategy of Methodology: The Virtues of Being Reductionist for Comparative LawGillian HadfieldUSC Law School and Department of Economics University of Toronto Law Journal, Vol. 59, p. 223, 2009 USC CLEO Research Paper No. C09-14 USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 09-27 Abstract: This is a pre-publication draft of a response to three comments on my paper entitled “Levers of Legal Design: Institutional Determinants of the Quality of Law” 36 Journal of Comparative Economics 43. The Comments, prepared by Ralf Michaels, John Reitz and Pierre Legrand, together with an Introduction by Catherine Valcke, appeared together with this reply in the inaugural Focus Feature of the University of Toronto Law Journal in April 2009. The reply responds to the concerns raised, in different ways, by comparative law scholars about the use of simplified modeling techniques to analyze the nature and impact of law in different countries. I explore the tension between the need for 'thick description' of legal regimes and respect for legal regimes on their own terms and the insights that can be generated through the abstraction inherent in analytical methods like economics.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 12 Accepted Paper SeriesDate posted: May 28, 2009 ; Last revised: June 14, 2009Suggested CitationContact Information
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