Scientific Approaches and Methods of Research in Legal Studies

Scientific research consists not only of the analysis and generalization of the previously accumulated material. Science is the creation of new knowledge. The birth of new knowledge always opposes stereotypes that hinder the recognition of new ideas. The methodology of legal science points the way to a lawyer-researcher preventing him from getting lost in the sea of legal doctrines, legal dogmas, arrays of legal norms and relations. In this context the author of the article justifies that scientific approaches should be distinguished from research methods. The scientific approach is characterized by a greater breadth of coverage and may include a set of concepts, principles, methods, other means of cognition.