Some methodological reflections on legal research at the doctoral level

Abstract

Knowledge in general, and legal knowledge in particular, is a complex process, which meets several particularities aimed at the object of study of legal science, takes place in certain stages and uses various methods. The young researchers who are the future of legal science and who must have an honest, responsible and independent scientific behavior, initiating scientific research, formulate the scientific problem to be researched. The analysis of the articles published by doctoral students in the National Journal of Law highlighted certain particularities of legal scientific research. Starting from the moment of formulating the scientific problem, the next phase - the advancement of the hypothesis and its demonstration is followed by the validation of the results obtained by reporting the results to the research problem, confronting these results with the results of other researchers and assessing their generalization limits.