Checklist of legal research skills

The table below, referred to in Teaching legal research in the chapter on curriculum development, lists legal research skills learning outcomes with details of which particular outcomes should form components of the curriculum for different types of law course. It also indicates the focus of the instruction and whether student competence in the skill of performing the objective can be inferred.

The six types of course are:

• undergraduate non-law courses but with a law element (for example BA Business Studies, BA Social Work)
• undergraduate law courses (LLB)
• postgraduate vocational courses (Legal Practice Course and Bar Vocational Course)
• postgraduate non-vocational courses where students already possess a law degree (some LLM courses, and all research degrees)
• postgraduate non-vocational courses where students do not possess a law degree (for example, some LLM courses)
• continuing professional development (CPD) courses

Last Modified: 30 June 2010