방법 비교

	비판적 판례 분석	교리적 법률 연구
분야	현장 조사법	현장 조사법
계열	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
기원 연도	Late 1970s–1980s (CLS conference 1977; Unger 1983)	19th century (systematised ~1860s–1880s in common law jurisdictions)
창시자	Critical Legal Studies (CLS) movement; key figures include Duncan Kennedy, Roberto Unger, Mark Tushnet	Common law tradition; systematised by jurists such as A.V. Dicey and John Austin
유형	Qualitative legal research approach	Legal-analytical research method
원전	Unger, R. M. (1983). The Critical Legal Studies Movement. Harvard Law Review, 96(3), 561–675.	Hutchinson, T. (2013). Researching and Writing in Law (3rd ed.). Thomson Reuters. ISBN: 9780455229829
별칭	critical legal analysis, CLS case analysis, critical judicial analysis, critical legal reading	black-letter law research, legal doctrine analysis, analytical jurisprudence, traditional legal scholarship
관련	6	6
요약	Critical case law analysis applies the theoretical tools of Critical Legal Studies (CLS) to the examination of judicial decisions. Rather than accepting legal reasoning at face value, this approach interrogates how courts construct legal arguments, whose interests those arguments serve, and how ideological commitments are concealed beneath the appearance of neutral doctrinal logic. It exposes the political and social dimensions embedded in judicial language and outcomes.	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.