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Legal Research 733533

Generic Skills

On completion of the subject, students should have developed the following generic skills:

  • Attitudes towards knowledge that include valuing truth, openness to new ideas and ethics associated with knowledge creation and truth
  • Capacity for close reading and analysis of a range of sources
  • Capacity for critical and independent thought and reflection
  • Capacity to solve problems, including the collection and valuation of information
  • Capacity to plan and manage time
  • Capacity to engage in interdisciplinary research
  • Capacity to communicate the results of that research, clearly and persuasively.

In addition, a range of law specific skills will have been reinforced including:

  • An understanding of law’s relationship with other disciplines
  • A capacity to engage in high level legal analysis and writing.