Introduction, 1. Doctrinal research Researching Jury, 2. Socio-legal studies: A challenge to the doctrinal approach, 3. Doing empirical research: Exploring the decision-making of magistrates and juries, 4. Legal research in the humanities, 5. Legal history, 6. Comparative law and its methodology, 7. Biographical approaches: Using life writing as a research method, 8. Economic analysis of law, or economically informed legal research, 9. The Master's Tools? A Feminist Approach to Legal and Lay Decision-Making, 10. Law and anthropolpgy: legal pluralism and 'lay' decision making, 11. Creative Approaches, 12. Critical legal 'method' as attitude