Revisiting Pound's Law in Action and Ehrlich's Living Law to Find the "Gap": A Compilation of Lecture Notes

David Tan (King's College London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)

Journal of Judicial Review
Vol. 24 No. 2 (2022): December 2022

Finding research "gap" is an important aspect that must always be done when starting research. Especially if the research is a sociological research. This article aims to shed light on the sociological approach in legal research into approaches, namely the Sociology of Law approach and the approach of Socio-legal Studies. These two approaches have different and unique ways of defining research "gaps" This article will examine using empirical methods that rely on primary and secondary data, as well as inductive methods to analyze data. A comparison will also be made between Ehrlich's "living law" and Pound's "law in action" so that the differences between the two ideas can be found so that in the future, future researchers will not consider the two ideas identical.