This course is designed to teach postgraduate students advanced legal research and writing skills. It is taught by a group of law professors mainly from the FLL. Depending on availability, high calibre legal academics from other law schools may also be invited to join the teaching team on a case by case basis. The course covers a wide range of topics of legal research and writing, such as jurisprudence, legal research methodologies, use of library resources, legal reasoning, preparation and writing of law journal articles, preparation and writing of LLM thesis, use of references, formality for legal writing, and critical legal thinking.

CILO-1: Participants shall be able to critically apply the different legal issues of Research Methodology and Legal Writing discussed in the course, to compare and link them with related topics/areas and to do independent research in the areas of their interest and specialization.