This chapter seeks to situate some methodologies for research at the intersection of intellectual property (IP) law and environmental law within a broader context of methodological analyses that are brought to law and legal problems. These methodological forms include historical, doctrinal, theoretical, empirical (often economic, psychological, and sociological), and other types of analyses (including public choice theory and big data analyses). Both fields are situated within a broader context of legal understanding, which requires extensive familiarity with, among other things: (1) legislation and administrative regulation and practices; (2) individual and market behaviours; (3) how laws and regulatory actions affect those behaviours; and (4) the consequences of such legal and regulatory interventions. The chapter emphasizes the problem of selecting problems to study, the method of choosing research methods, and the solution to the lack of solutions to date for the identified problems. It provides personal examples of the (necessarily) idiosyncratic choices made along each of these dimensions. The chapter concludes that such choices invariably are based on personal values and theoretical commitments, which others in the relevant evaluative communities will invariably dispute and contest.