17 February 2017, University of Bern
Aim
The aim of the workshop is to gain an overview of the legal and policy norms, methods and criteria applied in the evaluation of academic legal research from a comparative perspective and find out where there is consensus and disagreement about current quality management practices that affect legal scholarship throughout Europe.
Lead questions
– What is the state of the art with regard to the practice of evaluation of academic legal research in the different countries?
– Why is academic legal research being evaluated (what purposes does research evaluation serve in the different countries)?
– How is academic legal research being evaluated (what sort of evaluation methods and criteria are being applied by the different actors in the field, such as universities, journals and publishers)?
– Which consequences are attached to the evaluations?
– To what extent is there agreement or disagreement about the current and future course of action in legal research evaluation?
