Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Δογματική Νομική Έρευνα	Ανάλυση Νομολογίας
Πεδίο	Μέθοδοι Πεδίου	Μέθοδοι Πεδίου
Οικογένεια	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Έτος προέλευσης	19th century (systematised ~1860s–1880s in common law jurisdictions)	Medieval English common law; academic formalisation 19th–20th century
Δημιουργός	Common law tradition; systematised by jurists such as A.V. Dicey and John Austin	Common law tradition (England); systematised in Anglo-American jurisprudence
Τύπος	Legal-analytical research method	Qualitative legal research method
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Hutchinson, T. (2013). Researching and Writing in Law (3rd ed.). Thomson Reuters. ISBN: 9780455229829	Hutchinson, T. (2010). Researching and Writing in Law (3rd ed.). Thomson Reuters. ISBN: 9780455227689
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	black-letter law research, legal doctrine analysis, analytical jurisprudence, traditional legal scholarship	judicial decision analysis, legal case analysis, jurisprudential analysis, case-based legal research
Συναφείς	6	6
Σύνοψη	Doctrinal legal research is the foundational methodology of legal scholarship. It systematically identifies, reads, and analyses authoritative legal sources — statutes, case law, constitutional texts, and regulations — to describe, explain, and critique the content and internal logic of legal doctrine. By working within the accepted hierarchy of legal sources, it answers the question 'What is the law?' with analytical rigour and interpretive precision, producing descriptions of settled doctrine and arguments for how ambiguities should be resolved.	Case law analysis is a systematic method for examining judicial decisions to identify binding legal rules, evolving doctrines, and interpretive trends. Rooted in the common law tradition of stare decisis, it requires the researcher to locate the ratio decidendi — the binding reasoning — of each decision, distinguish it from obiter dicta, and trace how that reasoning has been applied, distinguished, or overruled across subsequent cases. The method is fundamental to legal scholarship, litigation strategy, and law reform research.