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

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Law CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryThe 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.
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs None
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2014/15, Not available to visiting students (SS1) Quota:  None
Course Start Semester 1
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 200 ( Seminar/Tutorial Hours 20, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 176 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) One essay
Feedback Not entered
No Exam Information
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
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsTheory, Philosophy, Legal Research
Contacts
Course organiserDr Claudio Michelon
Tel:
Email: c.michelon@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMiss Aimie Little
Tel: (0131 6)50 2010
Email: aimie.little@ed.ac.uk
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