Research strategies and methods in business law

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.