Advanced Legal Research

TheAdvanced Legal Research program fromUniversity of Westminsteris a unique postgraduate course designed to produce outstanding professional legal researchers who will generate professional, academic, policy-focused and creative research in response to the needs, problems and challenges of today and tomorrow.The University of Westminster and its courses are located in London.

Legal research is a field with a number of job opportunities, but the route to a career in legal research can often be unclear. This practical course seeks to address this gap by teaching you both the theory and practice of conducting advanced legal research. You’ll develop a broad foundation of the skills and knowledge required to become an agile researcher, whether you wish to progress onto further research through a PhD or apply your learning to a research role in a variety of sectors.

While the broad nature of the course will allow you to apply your research skills to a variety of fields, the final project will give you the opportunity to specialise in an area of your choosing through writing a dissertation or producing a more creative project through multimedia or other non-traditional methods.The University of Westminster and its courses are located in London.

Careers

This Advanced Legal Research program fromUniversity of Westminsterprovides a pathway to further advanced legal research, to specialist research positions within legal and nonlegal professional spaces, to positions within policy and the creative industries, and to collaborations between legal research and emerging areas of the economy.

Courses include:

• Advanced Legal Research Project

• Advanced Research Methods in Law

• Innovation, Technology and Research Communication

• New Normativities and Legal Theory

• Project Design and Development

• The Professional Legal Researcher