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The European Research Council (ERC) funding scheme classifies law within the social sciences and humanities sector, identifying legal science as a social science. The paper presents the case-study of such a classification as a deterministic model of evaluation and assessment of legal research. This may impact on career opportunities of individuals as well as on scientific independence, tacitly predefining the selection of research topics and legal methodology. The paper argues that ERC encourages a successful trend of conducting legal research to obtain funding, through the application of indicators. Their aim is to show which process has been followed to achieve and measure results. Legal science then risks being reduced to the analysis of legal performance. In this context, re-reading some writings of Polanyi on social sciences as well as on the critique of economic determinism sheds light on forms of academic determinism that affect the way of carrying-out research.

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The abstract is a discursive genre with an autonomous nature in the academic field. Research into the structure and composition of abstracts has been carried out in a variety of languages, and these characteristics vary according to the language or field of knowledge, among others. This research aims to find out what are the characteristics of the abstracts written in Basque in the field of Social Sciences. To this end, the Basque language summaries published since the creation of the Ikastorratza journal have been analyzed in articles originally published in Basque. Considering Hyland's model (2000), the fundamental quantitative and discursive characteristics of these texts have been examined, together with their evolution over time. The results show heterogeneous patterns and a lack of discursive systematization in the construction of these texts. All of this has implications for the teaching of academic writing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]