Resumen de Some remarks on methodology in legal studies in the light of the challenges that globalization poses to legal doctrine

Stefano Civitarese Matteucci

• This article revolves around the recent flourish of writing devoted to problems of method in law studies relating to the challenges that globalization poses to legal doctrine. The aim of the article is to maintain that in issues about legal methodology there is little methodology and much more ideology and to show that, as a consequence of this, the perception itself of what does not work and the search for a �methodological turn� are strongly influenced by ideological and not methodological preferences. The paper is composed of two parts, both conceived as clues to corroborate such a stance. The first part discusses from a conceptual point of view what makes the study of law a relatively autonomous field, especially focusing on the idea of doctrinal constructivism advocated by Prof. von Bogdandy. The second part, taking as an example a recent study about new models of pluralist global governance, tries to argue that it is possible to reconcile doctrinal constructivism with a plural legal world.