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NOTES ON THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD IN THE 21ST CENTURY FROM A LEGAL PERSPECTIVE

Abstract:

Introduction: The scientific method and its applicability in the contemporary world is an effective short and medium-term solution to the theoretical-practical problems that society faces today. Legal investigations find in this method an effective and efficient instrument to achieve their results. Objective: theoretically analyze the main aspects related to the scientific method and its applicability to the legal research environment, with emphasis on the most important doctrinal criteria. Scientific methods: This qualitative research will be assisted by analytical and deductive methods and the document analysis technique. All of them together managed to systematize the main theoretical criteria related to the scientific method, after an extensive bibliographic review and deduce their application to the world of law. Conclusions: The scientific method is the controlled, critical and systematic empirical study of hypotheses that attempt to explain alleged relationships between various phenomena. The scientific method is an objective, systematic and controlled process whose stages are: 1) definition of the problem, 2) formulation of hypotheses, 3) collection and analysis of data, 4) confirmation or rejection of hypotheses, 5) results, 6) conclusions. There are four perspectives of the scientific method applied to the legal field: philosophical conception of the legal method, methodological conception of law, historical-critical conception and strict conception. Legal investigations find in the scientific method an efficient instrument for their results.