Unit of Study LAWS4006 Law Honours Thesis I (2024)

Unit description

Students must be able to find the law in an efficient and expeditious manner before they are able to apply it to the solution of a real or hypothetical legal problem. This is the first of two Thesis units that further develop legal research skills that have been introduced at an earlier stage in the degree. These skills must be complemented by the ability to critically analyse, to identify a legal problem or philosophical issue worthy of investigation, to establish hypotheses concerning the problem, where this is appropriate, and to test the hypotheses and present the outcomes of the investigation.

Unit content

Module 1: Research proposal to Honours dissertation

Module 2: Dissertation writing: structure, style and philosophical narrative issues

Module 3: Embedding ethical and methodological structures in your work

Module 4: Research control: modifying Research Question in light of literature review

Module 5: Research control: is your Abstract answering your Research Question?

Module 6: Developing outlets: policy-making, article or LLM/PhD?

Module 7: Thesis writing: tips, tricks and traps