LL4F9      Half Unit
Legal Research and Writing Skills

This information is for the 2025/26 session.

Course Convenor

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This course on Legal Research and Writing has a taught component focusing on research and writing skills and a stand-alone dissertation (details about which may be found in the LLM Handbook), to be written in a substantive law area of the student’s choice.

The taught part of the course is designed to enable students to gain a better understanding of:

• the nature of research in general and of legal research in particular, and the range of questions and research methodologies to be found within legal scholarship;

• the processes involved in legal research, including research design, refining a research question, resource identification, and searching for relevant materials;

• legal writing skills, including issues of style, process, the use of sources and the presentation of findings and arguments.

This course might use Cadmus for submitting assessments. This platform is currently being evaluated by LSE for AI-resilient assessment. For more information, visit Cadmus Assessment Edit Tracking - Guidance for Students.

This course is typically delivered through a combination of classes and lectures throughout Winter Term. Students will usually have additional hours in the Spring Term.  

Dissertation (100%, 10000 words)

See the LLM handbook for full details and regulations about the dissertation.