The incompatibility of legal research with the quantitative and qualitative approach. The return to the three-dimensional theory of law

Abstract

In Peru, many law students encounter a big problem when writing their undergraduate or graduate thesis, since they have to denaturalize their work in order to fit with the research regulations that impose thesis structures foreign to them. the legal methodology. These regulatory documents commonly establish that the thesis student can only carry out quantitative and/or qualitative research. Given this, it must be kept in mind that legal thesis scholars should not have the obligation to apply methodologies foreign to law, because law has its own methodologies to achieve scientific knowledge. The three-dimensional theory of law is perhaps the best option for thesis students, because it presents great methodological flexibility and every law student is familiar with its methodology or part of it.