1.2 Scope of Legal Research

The scope's map (the exam's tour): (1) statutes and their interpretation (the drafting history, the amendments, the interpretation questions); (2) case law (the precedent's evolution — the NKP's mining; the ratios' lines); (3) legal doctrine and theory (the jurisprudential inquiry); (4) legal institutions (the courts' working, the police, the prisons — Criminology's terrain, this semester); (5) legal processes and procedures (the delays, the execution — Procedural Law's questions); (6) legal actors (the bench, the bar, the prosecutors, the police); (7) law and society (the law's social working — the compliance, the gaps, the customs); (8) law reform (the gap- analysis feeding the Law Commission and the Parliament); (9) comparative and internationallaw (the treaty implementation, the transplants); (10) the legal profession's own world (the legal-aid access, the market). In sum: from the text to the street.