This week’s topics
Final assessment and submission
- Final coursework submission
- Assessment against all criteria
What you will be able to do
- 1.1 Identify the criteria required to conduct legal research.
- 1.2 Define key issues in the proposed research.
- 1.3 Assess the diversity of research methods used in socio-legal studies.
- 1.4 Evaluate ethical dimensions of socio-legal approaches.
- 1.5 Analyse features of the blackletter approach to doctrinal legal research.
- 2.1 Choose a relevant legal research project topic.
- 2.2 Create appropriate research aims and objectives with justification.
- 2.3 Formulate a detailed plan for the research project.
- 3.1 Critically analyse different theoretical approaches to a legal research problem.
- 3.2 Create a structured and thorough critical literature review.
- 4.1 Critically evaluate relevant research methodologies that can be applied to your chosen research topic.
- 4.2 Justify the methodology selected in terms of the research.
- 4.3 Propose suitable techniques to use with quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis.
- 5.1 Plan a legal research project and present this as a written proposal.
- 5.2 Critically evaluate own skills and knowledge, with reference to the intended outcome of the research project.
Activity
Final assessment week: submission of the unit assignment.
Study materials
The teaching notes, exercises and videos of this week are in the student portal. Your portal is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance, so you can open them before the semester starts.
