Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of contributors; 1 Introduction to human rights research methods; 2 Human rights based approaches to research; 3 The doctrinal approach in international human rights law scholarship; 4 Legal theory as a research methodology; 5 Qualitative methods; 6 Quantitative analysis; 7 Critical ethnography and human rights research; 8 Comparative approaches to human rights; 9 'Mixing methods': reflections on compatibility; Index