Exploring legal meaning

  Order Description     Some have dismissed doctrinal research as being merely descriptive or expository, or about the dry, mechanical application of rules, but this underestimates the sophistication of the interpretative tools that have been developed and the critical techniques applied in doctrinal analysis. Vick, D. W. (2004) ‘Interdisciplinarity and the discipline of law’, Journal of Law and Society, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 163–93, at p. 179. Explain the key features of the doctrinal approach and critically evaluate its strengths and weaknesses as an approach to exploring legal meaning. Describe how you used online resources to identify and access relevant information for Question 1. Do you think your approach to this research worked well or not? Explain your reasoning.