Postgraduate Course: Theories and Philosophies of Legal Research (LAWS11104)

Course Outline
School	School of Law	College	College of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	20	ECTS Credits	10
Summary	The course is designed to give students an overview of the full range of types of and approaches to legal research, and to introduce them to thinking about the nature of legal research as intellectual endeavour. The material covered by the course ranges from traditional doctrinal research, through law in context work, to socio-legal and empirical legal studies, and theoretical and philosophical research on legal phenomena.
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Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
At the end of the course students will: - have an understanding of the range of types of and approaches to legal research undertaken by legal scholars; - developed intellectual tools to help them understand where the research which they undertake fits within these typologies; - developed skills of reading and critical analysis enabling them to evaluate the work of others; - developed written and oral skills, including the clear and succint expression of ideas