Introduction to human rights research methods / Rhona Smith -- Human rights based approaches to research / Rhona Smith -- The doctrinal approach in international human rights scholarship / Suzanne Egan -- Legal theory as a research methodology / Lee McConnell -- Qualitative methods / Rhona Smith and Lorna Smith -- Quantitative analysis / Todd Landman -- Critical ethnography and human rights research / William Paul Simmons and Lyndsey Feldman -- Comparative approaches to human rights / Sue Farran -- "Mixing methods" : reflections on compatibility / Rhona Smith and Lee McConnell.