LL500
Doctoral Research Seminar series
This information is for the 2025/26 session.
Course Convenor
Prof Thomas Poole
Availability
This course is compulsory on the MPhil/PhD in Law. This course is available on the MPhil/PhD in Law. This course is not available as an outside option to students on other programmes.
This course is compulsory on the MPhil/PhD in Law and MPhil/PhD in Law (Socio-Legal Theory). This course is not available as an outside option.
Course content
The course aims to equip students with the skills required to undertake advanced legal research. The focus in the AT is on methodological and theoretical issues arising in legal scholarship (with readings of Foucault, Geertz, Butler and others). The focus in the WT is on the various stages of the PhD process, and on preparation for professional life in academic law beyond the PhD. In the ST an Upgrade Conference is held at which first year research students present their work-in-progress.
Teaching
20 hours of seminars in the Winter Term.
20 hours of seminars in the Autumn Term.
This course has a reading week in Week 6 of Autumn and Winter Term.
Assessment
There are no examination arrangements. However, attendance is compulsory for first year research students. Research students in other years may also attend.
Key facts
Department: LSE Law School
Course Study Period: Autumn and Winter Term
Unit value: Non-credit bearing
FHEQ Level: Level 8
CEFR Level: Null
Total students 2024/25: 8
Average class size 2024/25: 8
Controlled access 2024/25: NoCourse selection videos
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