Methodology of Procedural Legal Research

Department: Master's Degree in Procedural Law

Hours: 18 h

Brief course description

The historical evolution of procedural law: the procedural stage, the stage of practitioners, and the stage of scientific proceduralism. Procedural trends and lines of thought in the 20th century. Monist and dualist schools. Lines of procedural thought and their various exponents. Main legal scholars at the European, Latin American, and Argentine levels. The influence of philosophy on procedural law. Methodology of procedural legal research in the strict sense: 1) Topic selection; 2) The research problem; 3) The hypothesis; 4) Drafting the thesis proposal; 5) The thesis on procedural law.