Details for LAW212 Advanced Legal Research

Original legal scholarship starts with a question worth answering. Advanced Legal Research takes your research and writing further: finding a topic, building proof, writing with clarity and preparing work as if for publication. You’ll address academic integrity and ethics, evaluate what counts as a real contribution to knowledge, and produce original research with persistence and rigour. You’ll finish with a substantial research essay shaped for scholarly standards.

Quick Stats

• Currently offered by Alphacrucis: Yes
• Course code: LAW212
• Credit points: 10

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Prerequisite

LAW101 Introduction to Law; LAW103 Legal Research and Writing   

Unit Content

Outcomes

1. Apply your prior learning of legal research and writing, and legal reasoning and argument.
2. Understand requirements for academic publication and academic integrity, and plan academic work accordingly.
3. Critically evaluate academic material and determine whether they make a significant contribution to knowledge and to the understanding of the subject with which it deals.
4. Demonstrate the capacity to conduct ethical independent research with persistence and rigour.
5. Create original ideas, research and present them as if for publication.

Subject Content

1. Introduction and Finding a Topic
2. Researching
3. Beginning to Write
4. The Background & Proof
5. Concluding your Work
6. Ethics
7. Logical Problems
8. Sentence & Paragraph Issues
9. Wording Problems
10. Using Evidence
11. Publishing
12. Subject Revision

This course may be offered in the following formats

Face to Face on site

Please check the timetable to see when this subject will next be offered at Alphacrucis University College.

Assessment Methods

1. Literature Review Presentation  (30%)
2. Research Proposal & Presentation (30%)
3. Advanced Legal Research Essay  (40%)

Prescribed Text

• Eugene Volokh, Academic Legal Writing: Law Review Articles, Student Notes, Seminar Papers, and Getting on Law Review (Foundation Press, 5th ed, 2016)  
• Melbourne University Law Review Association, Australian Guide to Legal Citation (Melbourne University Law Review Association, 4th ed, 2018) 

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Recommended Text

• Nichola Corbett-Jarvis and Brendan Grigg Effective Legal Writing: A Practical Guide (LexisNexis, 2nd ed, 2016)