Legal Research Methodologies

During the Methodology Winter School of the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship (CSDC) on 23 January 2026, Vicky Robertson held a workshop on legal research for the social sciences, introducing doctoral and postdoctoral students from a variety of fields to the basics of legal research. The main focus was on Hans Kelsen’s pyramid of legal sources, its modern interpretation and where democracy-related legal instruments figure in this scheme.