This course is designed to teach PhD students advanced legal research and writing skills. It is taught by a group of PhD supervisors 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 PhD thesis, use of references, formality for legal writing, and critical legal thinking.

CILO-1: Students will be able to have basic ideas of different legal research methods. CILO-2: Students will be able to utilize some legal research method into their own research. CILO-3: Students will be able to develop research strategy to design personal research. CILO-4: Students will be able to get basic ability of academic writing, including the body of the paper, abstract, introduction conclusion and footnotes.