LEGAL RESEARCH

The present course on Legal Research Methods intends:

to acquaint the students of law with scientific methods of inquiry into law.
to make them familiar with nature, scope, and significance of addition,
to make them aware of role of legal research in the development of law and legal institutions

With these objectives, the course addresses to sources,categories and types of legal research.
§It focuses on legal research methods and tools.
§ It highlights different dimensions and tools of doctrinal legal research as well as non-doctrinal legal research or socio-legal research.
§ In other words, the course strives to instill in the law students basic skill of identifying research problems, planning and executing legal research projects and of appreciating the problems associated therewith.
§ It aims at instilling in them basic research skills so that they can plan and pursue legal and socio- legal research in future.