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[Eliav Lieblich (@eliavl) is Professor of Law at Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University.] Demystifying Methods As discussed in Part I, methods intimidate legal scholars, and understandably so.  To demystify methods, the most helpful thing, is …  to go back to your research question. (anti-climactic, I know) In this context, categorizing research questions to descriptive, normative, and critical questions is a...

[Eliav Lieblich (@eliavl) is Professor of Law at Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University.] That girl from sociology in your grad students mixer. The smug guy in your doctoral colloquium. That close-talker near the cookies at the conference break. The just-tenured-prof in your job talk. The-grant-proposal-format-that-was-made-for-sciences-but-for-some-reason-is-the-same-for-everyone. Eventually, someone will ask you about your research methods. Confession: I dreaded this question...

[Srinivas Burra is an Associate Professor and Associate Dean at the Faculty of Legal Studies, South Asian University, New Delhi. Julia Emtseva is a Research Fellow/PhD candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public and International Law. Barrie Sander is Assistant Professor of International Justice at Leiden University – Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs. Ntina Tzouvala is an...

[Shaimaa Abdelkarim is a lecturer at Birmingham Law School. Farnush Ghadery is a Senior Lecturer in Law at London South Bank University. Jay Ramasubramanyam is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Science at York University, Toronto. Rohini Sen is a PhD candidate at Warwick School of Law and an Assistant Professor at the Jindal Global Law School. Kanad Bagchi is a Doctoral...

[Barrie Sander is Assistant Professor of International Justice at Leiden University – Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs.] Aspiring to an academic career has its challenges and each academic discipline has its specificities. International lawyers interested in pursuing a doctoral degree or an academic career in the field of international law face certain challenges which are general in nature, as well as more specific issues...