Legal Research Skills Course [Law Students & Junior Lawyers]
What you'll learn
- Carry out independent legal research for your assignments
- Differentiate between different sources of law according to their importnace for the legal research
- Identify issues at the initial stages of your legal research assignment
- Collect necessary facts for your legal research
- Present findings of your research in a structured and professional manner
- Carry out independent legal research for your cases (if you have started your own legal practice)
Requirements
- Interest in law and commitment to improve legal reasearch skills!
Description
What do people say about this course?
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******* "The beauty is that these are very good and short lectures ,I will say a must-have course for anyone interested in improving his legal research skills. This course conveys in few sittings what books will tell in hundreds...."
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it. James Bowel
Legal Research Skills is considered as a fundamental and core skill for the law students and budding lawyers. More and more law schools are concerned about developing this skill for their students at the initial stages of their legal studies.
This 'ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE LEGAL RESEARCH' course is aimed at the law students undertaking their undergraduate or postgraduate law courses anywhere in the world in any jurisdiction. The course teaches essential and practical legal research skills you need right from the start of your legal career through to the completion of it (I hope that is retirement from your professional life if you wish so!).
The course discusses strategies for undertaking legal research for a particular assignment and discusses, supports and encourages well established practices and practical approaches towards carrying out effective legal research. The course covers all stages of the legal research; from the point when a student or a lawyer is handed an assignment through to presenting the final findings of the research to the tutor or supervisor.
I have been involved in carrying out legal research extensively during my postgraduate degrees and then in my legal practice for around seven years in total. The course also reflects my personal experience of undertaking legal research and working at a law firm ranked in 'Chambers and Partners', the organisation that identifies and ranks the most outstanding law firms and lawyers in over 180 jurisdictions throughout the world.
The course also includes useful Latin terms, abbreviations, practitioners' texts and contains wide range of invaluable and free online resources which will be helpful in finding relevant resources for research purposes. The resources include material from independent organisations and also include resources from number of legal jurisdictions for you to explore them further.
Who this course is for:
- Students undertaking undergraduate and postgraduate courses in law
- Junior lawyers at the initial stages of their legal practice
- Anyone interested in improving their legal research skills
Course content
- Preview01:37
- 02:14Start Improving your Legal Research Skills Now!
- 02:07Sources for the Legal Research
Instructor
![Barrister Tufail Hussain LLB (Hons.), LLM, Lincoln's Inn, London](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
- 4.2 Instructor Rating
- 212 Reviews
- 2,596 Students
- 8 Courses
My aim is to help law students and lawyers improve their academic and professional skills and become a successful legal professional.
About Me
Hello, welcome to my page and thank you for showing interest in my courses. I am Tufail. I have a strong passion for teaching law and have experience of tutoring law students for over 5 years. In addition to my LL.B. (Hons) and LL.M. in Corporate & Business Law, which included intellectual property laws, company laws, arbitration and corporate crime, I also hold 'Certificate in Delivering Learning'. The course provided me with added insights to develop and design courses for the learners.
I am a 'Principal Legal Researcher' at LEX-Ed Online. I carry out research on international laws with a specific interest in the study and comparison of the laws of the United States of America (USA), United Kingdom (UK), the European Union (EU) and those of the countries with the Common Law background. Any courses, projects, and classes that are shared at this platform go through the process of thorough legal research and an in-house assessment of the usefulness and helpfulness of the law courses for the students and other users.
I have also got the experience of working in corporate and commercial areas of law. I am a winner of the prestigious 2009 Annual Students' Advocacy (Or Mooting) Competition and has represented my alma mater in inter-institutional competitions. I am the author of several books for law students and have written legal articles for the information and guidance of the general public. I am also a newspaper columnist and have a strong interest in the international justice systems.
Thank you for your time and I look forward to sharing my knowledge and experience with you on this platform.
Feedback
I am hugely interested in developing practical law courses with real benefits. Here, I do not mean providing legal advice through my courses or material, but only creating law courses for educational purposes. I am always looking for your valuable feedback and comments so that I can develop and improve my courses and material according to your educational needs.
Disclaimer
Please note that the law courses, academic and/or non-academic, are for information and educational purposes only and should not be taken as a substitute for a legal advice from a suitable professional in relation to any of your specific legal or non-legal issues; whether past, present or likely to arise in the future. Nothing in these courses, or any related videos and materials, is intended to be legal advice or an offer for the provision of legal services. If you do feel or find that there is any or possible similarity in circumstances, situations, facts or details, they will only be accidental and have nothing to do with any specific problems. Nothing in these courses, videos, articles or related materials will constitute a relationship of 'client and attorney/lawyer' with anyone.