La Investigación en el Derecho, Reflexiones, Alcances y Epistemologías

Abstract

The book that the reader is holding in his hands contains four reflections on legal research. First of all, the reader can find the text entitled “How to make coherent problems and clear questions? Reflections and exercises on the research project in Law" written by the researcher Miguel Andrés López Martínez, in which an analysis is carried out on the main requirements for the formulation of the research problem statement and the formulation of the research question in the field of Law, a reflection that has scope in other sections of the investigation such as the formulation of the objectives of the investigation. Here the analysis is enriched by the researcher with exercises on the application of prioritization criteria in the reparation of victims of the Colombian armed conflict. Secondly, the reader will be able to analyze the importance of the right to quote following the reflection of Professor Marcela Palacio Puerta in the text entitled "The right to quote in Research: Colombia". There, from the analysis of the relationship between the right to quote and the intellectual property regime, the researcher will be able to understand the minimums that govern the activity of the citation in the Colombian case and the implications that it may entail. his ignorance. Third, the reader will find the text "Scope of legal epistemology: the relationship between research methodology and legal theory" by Professor Diego Mauricio Higuera Jiménez. In this section you will find an analysis of the typology of research in the field of social sciences and its relationship with the main schools of Law that will be fed, in each case with an example capable of guiding any Law researcher in the path of his own research. Fourth, the reader will be able to approach a specific research field: that of biolaw. There, in the text entitled "Conceptions and epistemologies of biolaw" written by Professor Erick Valdés, internationally recognized researcher for his contributions to this field of study, the reader will find a reflection on the main epistemological and theoretical difficulties of the different schools. who have erred by considering biolaw as a phenomenon intrinsically related to bioethics. Finally, the reader will find the text entitled "Problematizing neutrality in socio-legal research. Perspectives from the critical analysis of legal discourse” where you can find a reflection and problematization around one of the main assumptions of the investigation: that of the neutrality of the researcher. To do this, David López will focus on the field of socio-legal research. Each one of these chapters will be an opportunity for other researchers, both those who are beginning their journey in research work and those who are more advanced in their development, to qualify their investigative processes and subsequently offer their own efforts to others in this task full of difficulties, but also happiness, which constitutes the search for knowledge.