Postgraduate Module Descriptor


LAWM686: Approaches to Research in Law

This module descriptor refers to the 2016/7 academic year.

Overview

NQF Level7
Credits15 ECTS Value7.5
Term(s) and duration

This module ran during term 1 (11 weeks)

Academic staff

Dr Helena Wray (Lecturer)

Sara Ramshaw (Lecturer)

Professor Anne Barlow (Lecturer)

Dr Catherine Dupre (Convenor)

Pre-requisites

None

Co-requisites

None

Available via distance learning

No

This module aims first to introduce key legal and socio-legal literature and provide a sound understanding of legal argumentation, the epistemological foundations of cognate interdisciplinary research and the debates surrounding the relationship between law and society. Second it aims to introduce and critically to explore different conceptual approaches to legal and socio-legal research (including its inter-disciplinary nature) on which students can reflect and draw to develop tools and approaches appropriate for their own research. Finally it considers the local, national, international and global contexts of law.

Module created

01/10/2008

Last revised

30/09/2016