The Blind Men and the Elephant: An Empirical Analysis of the Social Sciences in International Law
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The Blind Men and the Elephant : An Empirical Analysis of the Social Sciences in International Law. / Steininger, Silvia Karin; Byrne, William Hamilton; Oidtmann, Raphael.
In: Nordic Journal of International Law, Vol. 93, No. 1, 2024, p. 11-37.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - The Blind Men and the Elephant
T2 - An Empirical Analysis of the Social Sciences in International Law
AU - Steininger, Silvia Karin
AU - Byrne, William Hamilton
AU - Oidtmann, Raphael
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - What is the role of the social sciences in international law? This article maps how international law interacts with the social sciences, including its concepts, findings, methods, and epistemologies. It provides a first encompassing genealogy of social science references in six renowned international law journals, including the American, Asian, European, Leiden, and Nordic Journal of International Law as well as the British International and Comparative Law Quarterly, by using a corpus linguistic approach that encompasses more than 15,000 documents from 1907 to 2022. Moreover, it explores how structural factors related to the institutionalization and funding of certain strands of social science-inspired international law scholarship have influenced regional and temporal patterns in Europe, Germany, and Australia.
AB - What is the role of the social sciences in international law? This article maps how international law interacts with the social sciences, including its concepts, findings, methods, and epistemologies. It provides a first encompassing genealogy of social science references in six renowned international law journals, including the American, Asian, European, Leiden, and Nordic Journal of International Law as well as the British International and Comparative Law Quarterly, by using a corpus linguistic approach that encompasses more than 15,000 documents from 1907 to 2022. Moreover, it explores how structural factors related to the institutionalization and funding of certain strands of social science-inspired international law scholarship have influenced regional and temporal patterns in Europe, Germany, and Australia.
U2 - 10.1163/15718107-bja10076
DO - 10.1163/15718107-bja10076
M3 - Journal article
VL - 93
SP - 11
EP - 37
JO - Nordic Journal of International Law
JF - Nordic Journal of International Law
SN - 0902-7351
IS - 1
ER -
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