Introduction to MPhil/PhD Legal Research Methods 2022-23
This course aims to introduce a range of research methodologies that may be relevant to MPhil/PhD research in law and legally related fields. It also aims to improve your doctrinal research methods and/ or socio-legal research and allied skills depending on the parallel sessions that you choose to attend. At the end of the course you should:
- be familiar with the main schools of research theory;
- be able to explain the relative merits and demerits of basic qualitative and quantitative research methodologies for a given legal research project;
- be familiar with and have an understanding of qualitative and quantitative research methods (if you have selected these sessions as part of your optional classes);
- be able to select an appropriate legal research methodology for a given legal research project and be aware of how you would go about using the methodology;
- be able to use each of the main legal research techniques for a given research project;
- be able to assess the relative importance of the main legal research techniques for a given research project;
- have a basic understanding of data analysis issues, whether doctrinal or empirical;
- be able to present legal research findings more effectively.
Introduction to MPhil/PhD Legal Research Methods 2019-20
This course aims to introduce a range of research methodologies that may be relevant to MPhil/PhD research in law and legally related fields. It also aims to improve your doctrinal research methods and/ or socio-legal research and allied skills depending on the parallel sessions that you choose to attend. At the end of the course you should:
- be familiar with the main schools of research theory;
- be able to explain the relative merits and demerits of basic qualitative and quantitative research methodologies for a given legal research project;
- be familiar with and have an understanding of qualitative and quantitative research methods (if you have selected these sessions as part of your optional classes);
- be able to select an appropriate legal research methodology for a given legal research project and be aware of how you would go about using the methodology;
- be able to use each of the main legal research techniques for a given research project;
- be able to assess the relative importance of the main legal research techniques for a given research project;
- have a basic understanding of data analysis issues, whether doctrinal or empirical;
- be able to present legal research findings more effectively.
Introduction to MPhil/PhD Legal Research Methods 2020-21
This course aims to introduce a range of research methodologies that may be relevant to MPhil/PhD research in law and legally related fields. It also aims to improve your doctrinal research methods and/ or socio-legal research and allied skills depending on the parallel sessions that you choose to attend. At the end of the course you should:
- be familiar with the main schools of research theory;
- be able to explain the relative merits and demerits of basic qualitative and quantitative research methodologies for a given legal research project;
- be familiar with and have an understanding of qualitative and quantitative research methods (if you have selected these sessions as part of your optional classes);
- be able to select an appropriate legal research methodology for a given legal research project and be aware of how you would go about using the methodology;
- be able to use each of the main legal research techniques for a given research project;
- be able to assess the relative importance of the main legal research techniques for a given research project;
- have a basic understanding of data analysis issues, whether doctrinal or empirical;
- be able to present legal research findings more effectively.