เปรียบเทียบวิธี

	การวิจัยกฎหมายตามหลักคำสอน	การวิจัยเอกสารจดหมายเหตุทางประวัติศาสตร์
สาขาวิชา	วิธีการภาคสนาม	วิธีการภาคสนาม
ตระกูล	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
ปีกำเนิด	19th century (systematised ~1860s–1880s in common law jurisdictions)	19th century (formalized ~1820s–1880s)
ผู้ริเริ่ม	Common law tradition; systematised by jurists such as A.V. Dicey and John Austin	Historians and archivists; systematised through the professionalization of historical scholarship in the 19th century
ประเภท	Legal-analytical research method	Qualitative primary-source research
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Hutchinson, T. (2013). Researching and Writing in Law (3rd ed.). Thomson Reuters. ISBN: 9780455229829	Hill, M. R. (1993). Archival Strategies and Techniques. Sage Publications. ISBN: 978-0803951853
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	black-letter law research, legal doctrine analysis, analytical jurisprudence, traditional legal scholarship	archival research, historical document analysis, archival history, primary source research
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	6	6
สรุป	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.	Historical archival research is a systematic method of investigating the past through the critical examination of primary source documents preserved in archives, libraries, and institutional collections. Researchers locate, access, authenticate, and interpret original records — such as government documents, correspondence, diaries, maps, and institutional files — to reconstruct events, trace processes, and build evidence-based historical arguments. It is foundational to historiography and widely applied across humanities and social science disciplines.