BEX6990 · Research strategies and methods in business law

Overview

This unit provides you with the skill and proficiency to conduct HDR research in business law. The aim of the unit is to assist you to develop research capabilities in the following areas: formulating research questions for legal problems; selecting a research purpose and theoretical perspective; approaches to the literature review; developing complex arguments; organising and structuring content in a law thesis; advanced writing techniques; ethical issues that arise in legal research; and presenting and publishing research in business law. The unit will also guide you to understand and evaluate legal research perspectives and methodologies that suit different types of research problems in business law. These will include traditional doctrinal approaches; comparative legal methods; legal realist, law in action and critical legal studies perspectives; legal history and empirical legal methods.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. increase understanding of the practical challenges that arise in business law research
2. translate a business law problem into a research problem and research questions and devise an effective research strategy
3. develop capabilities in producing complex and coherent arguments as required for a thesis in business law
4. apply relevant theories and methodologies to research problems in business law.

Workload

34 hours per semester of formal class contact, plus an additional 168 hours of private study. Also see unit timetable information.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.