Legal Research
Course
Online
Description
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Type
Course
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Level
Intermediate
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Methodology
Online
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Duration
12 Weeks
Enrol in this Programme now and learn to:
• Sharpen your research skills and develop your ability to engage in the intricacies of legal research: using databases, case reports, and journals;
• Identify and use relevant statues and reliable case laws and authorities effectively;
• Hone your research skills to supports your legal arguments and advice; and
• Develop valuable techniques to properly and effectively integrate your research into your writing and arguments.
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Subjects
- Research
- Law
- Lawyer
- Law Legal
- Law Public
- Law Rights
- Law Firm
- Law and Business
- Law for Business
- Law and Commerce
- Law Studies
Teachers and trainers (2)
Deeksha Singh
Faculty
After graduating from NLSIU Deeksha joined ICICI Bank, Mumbai and worked with their Structured Finance and Corporate Strategy Teams. Then she moved to the ESSAR Group, where she independently handled various financing transactions. At Rainmaker, Deeksha is a member of the Learning Team and is involved in the ideation, structuring and creation of programmes on mylaw.net, and writes regularly on Securities Law and Banking & Finance.
Tennille Duffy
Faculty
Tennille graduated from the University of Newcastle, Australia, in 2004 with a combined Arts/Law degree. She was admitted as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Australia, in 2005. She has a background in criminal defence advocacy and human rights policy work, and has served as a Lecturer of Law at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. Tennille joined Rainmaker in 2011. She trains in in skills-based areas such as legal writing and research.
Course programme
P R O G R A M M E O U T L I N E
Unit 1: Introduction to Legal Research
• Understand what modern day legal research entails, both the benefits and the pitfalls.
• Develop strategies that will assist you in identifying issues—in either cases or academic questions—that need to be researched.
Unit 2: Fundamentals of Conducting Legal Research
• Develop basic skills required to conduct successful legal research, in any area.
• Distinguish between primary and secondary sources and learn how to outline a clear research process to allow efficient research to be conducted every time.
• Learn how to generate search terms, develop a research plan, and how to decide when research is sufficient.
Unit 3: Understanding and Using Legal Authorities – Legislation
• Explore all forms of legislation beginning with the supreme law of the land, the Constitution, and moving on to Central and State legislation, delegated legislation, and ordinances.
• Learn how to ensure that the legislation you use is current.
Unit 4: Understanding and Using Legal Authorities – Case Law
• Understand how to use the other main, primary source of law—case law.
• Learn how the system of precedent operates.
• Grasp some finer points of the art of using case law to support a legal argument.
Unit 5: Using Online Research Tools for Primary and Secondary Sources
• Study to use search engines and databases, across both India and international legal sources.
• Learn to research both primary sources—statutes and case law—as well as secondary sources—such as journals, textbooks, and articles.
Unit 6: Using Research in your Writing – Integrating Research, and Citation and Referencing
• Analyse how to integrate you research into various forms of legal writing including research papers and professional writing tasks.
• Understand the importance of proper citation and referencing, in all forms of legal writing.
Additional information
Legal Research