Law and Public Policy: What Is It, Skills of Practitioners and Researchers, Research Designs and Methods, Law School Courses

Abstract

Professor Maria Paula Dallari Bucci and Professor William Clune have been collaborating on law and public policy (LPP) for about a year. This article is an effort to pull the previous work together, explain LPP in clear terms, discuss the skills and knowledge required for practitioners and researchers, and summarize research designs and methods appropriate for LPP research studies.

Keywords: Law and Public Policy (LPP), Public Goods, Progressivism, Judicial Role, Interdisciplinary Legal Studies, Institutionalism, Law and Society, Law and Politics, Law in Action, Legal Impacts, Democracy and Autocracy, Empirical Research Methods, Comparative Law, Brazilian LPP, LPP Curriculum