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	Analyse de contenu juridique	Analyse Thématique
Domaine	Méthodes de terrain	Recherche qualitative
Famille	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Année d'origine	1940s–1970s (applied systematically to legal texts)	2006
Auteur d'origine	Interdisciplinary; foundational content analysis by Harold Lasswell (1940s); applied to legal texts by empirical legal scholars from the 1970s onward	Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke
Type	Systematic qualitative-quantitative text analysis	Method
Source fondatrice	Krippendorff, K. (2004). Content Analysis: An Introduction to Its Methodology (2nd ed.). Sage Publications. ISBN: 978-0761915454	Braun, V., & Clarke, V. (2006). Using thematic analysis in psychology. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 3(2), 77–101.
Alias	LCA, legal text analysis, jurimetric content analysis, statutory content analysis	TA, Reflexive Thematic Analysis
Apparentées	6	3
Résumé	Legal content analysis applies the systematic procedures of content analysis to legal texts — statutes, regulations, judicial opinions, treaties, and legal commentaries — in order to identify patterns, themes, and trends across a corpus of legal material. It bridges qualitative legal scholarship and quantitative social-science methods, enabling researchers to draw reproducible, evidence-based conclusions about how law is written, applied, or has changed over time.	Thematic Analysis (TA) is a qualitative research methodology for identifying, analyzing, and reporting patterns (themes) in qualitative data. Developed systematically by Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke (2006), TA is flexible and accessible, applicable across diverse theoretical frameworks and data types, making it one of the most widely used qualitative methods in psychology, health research, and social sciences.