SUBJECT NO-IP63103, SUBJECT NAME- LEGAL RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

LTP- 3-1-0,CRD- 4
SYLLABUS :-
Foundations and Significance of Research – Dimensions of research in different
disciplines, Legal Research – Scope, Importance, relevance and limitations,
Models and methodsof Legal research -, Emerging trends and patterns.- Doctrinal
and non-doctrinal legal research – Relevance of empirical research – Major
Steps- Hypothesis, - Preparation of the research design - Tools of Data
Collection--- Classification and tabulation of data - Research tools and
techniques in inter-disciplinary research – Report WritingReference:1.M. O.
Price, H. Bitner and Bysiewiez, Effective Legal Research, (1978), Brown.
2.Pauline V. Young, Scientific Social Survey and Research, (1966),Prentice-
Hall. 3.William J. Grade and Paul K. Hatt, Methods in Social Research, (1967),
McGraw - Hill Book Company.4.Peter Kane and Herbert Krtizer, The Oxford
Handbook of Empirical Legal Research, (2012), Oxford University Press. 5.ILI,
Legal Research Methodology, (2001).