Today’s information and communication technologies have a serious impact on legal work and the legal professions. A higher frequency of legal amendments plus an ever growing amount of laws of national, regional and global origins require lawyers to avail of outstanding legal research skills in both analogue and digital formats. At the same time, legal drafting skills are also needed to process the data collected through research and to be able to present them in a concise but clear legal writing style.

CILO-1: Students will be able to perform legal research by screening sources in the relevant electronic legal databases (e.g. HEINONLINE, NEXIS UNI, WESTLAW, or JSTOR). CILO-2: Students will be able to employ the Internet and search engines, along with other research webpages such as Google Scholar/Books and the Social Science Research Network (SSRN). CILO-3: Students will be able to combine the most common structural elements of academic writings and presentations. CILO-4: Students will be able to utilize and apply the most common legal citation styles (e.g. Bluebook or the Canadian Citation Guide). CILO-5: Students will be able to identify the basics related to the publication process (e.g. journals, book chapters, monographs etc.).