Researching Justification Texts of a First Instance Court: from Assignment to Results and Reporting

Autores

  • Philip Langbroek Utrecht University
  • Tina Linden, van der Utrecht University

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Developing quantitative research, justification text, research process, judicial writing, judicial evaluation, Desarrollo de investigación cuantitativa, textos de justificación judiciales, proceso de investigación, escritura judicial, evaluación judicial

Resumo

Court decisions are reasoned to legitimize them. Lay people seem to understand little of the work of the courts. One of the questions for court administrators and judges is: for whom do judges write their judgments? Is it possible to analyze judicial justification texts with a view to the audiences they address? We answered that question by developing a methodology for the analysis of judgment justification texts, investigating judicial writing behavior. This paper focuses on the methodological hurdles we had to take and the mistakes we made and had to correct. Research reports in all articles on socio-legal research offer a positive and linear description of the research. This article wants to show that trial and error during the research process were inevitable and maybe could have been avoided if we would have had more experience with this type of research. We hope students and other researchers may profit from our experience.

Las decisiones judiciales se razonan para legitimarlas. Los profanos en la materia parecen entender poco de la labor de los tribunales. Una de las preguntas a administradores de tribunales y jueces es: ¿para quién redactan los jueces sus sentencias? ¿Es posible analizar los textos de justificación judiciales desde la perspectiva del público a quien se dirigen? Hemos respondido a esta pregunta mediante el desarrollo de una metodología para el análisis de textos de justificación judiciales, investigando el comportamiento de la escritura judicial. Este artículo se centra en los obstáculos metodológicos que tuvimos que sortear y los errores que cometimos y tuvimos que corregir. Los informes de investigación en todos los artículos de investigación sociojurídica ofrecen una descripción positiva y lineal de la investigación. Este artículo quiere demostrar que la prueba y el error eran inevitables durante el proceso de investigación eran inevitables, y podrían haberse evitado si hubiéramos tenido mayor experiencia en este tipo de investigación. Esperamos que estudiantes y otros investigadores puedan beneficiarse de nuestra experiencia.

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Biografia do Autor

Philip Langbroek, Utrecht University

Institute for Jurisprudence, Constitutional and Administrative law, Utrecht School of Law

Tina Linden, van der, Utrecht University

Senior Lecturer, Institute for Jurisprudence, Constitutional and Administrative law, Utrecht School of Law

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Publicado

2014-02-13

Como Citar

Langbroek, P. e Linden, van der, T. (2014) “Researching Justification Texts of a First Instance Court: from Assignment to Results and Reporting”, Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 4(5), p. 1071–1098. Disponível em: https://opo.iisj.net/index.php/osls/article/view/313 (Acessado: 27 dezembro 2024).

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Empirical research findings