Module Identifier LAM2020  
Module Title RESEARCH SKILLS IN LAW  
Academic Year 2002/2003  
Co-ordinator Ms Melanie L Williams  
Semester Semester 2  
Other staff Professor Christopher S P Harding, Mr Richard W Ireland  
Course delivery Seminars / Tutorials   11 x 2 hour seminars  
Assessment Semester Assessment   Presentation: Oral Presentation    
  Semester Assessment   Course Work: Written guide to working with a selected and approved category of materials and documentation (3000 words) plus a Book Review exercise(1000 words)    
  Supplementary Assessment   Resubmission of failed coursework    

Brief description

This module provides training in (a) an appreciation of the philosophical and epistemological foundations of legal and socio-legal research and research in cognate interdisciplinary fields and of the different objectives and principles inherent in each of these fields; and (b) the location, reading and use of different media, in particular literary and historical sources, as compared with conventional legal sources, material and documentation.

Content

Philosophical and epistemological foundations of legal, socio-legal and cognate interdisciplinary research
Theories and traditions of research in the above fields
Research perspectives, arising in particular from culture and gender

Access to documentation and databases : national, European and international sources; official documentation; archival material.

Location and use of different media and material : literary and historical sources.