Unit 2: Legal Research and Legal Writing
Teaching Hours for this Unit: 12 (the largest unit of the course)
Syllabus coverage in this unit
2.1 Legal Research and Legal Writing (meaning, significance, objectives, styles, criteria of good research, nature, scope, purpose, characteristics of legal writing) ·
2.2 Kinds of Legal Research · 2.3 Judge Made Law and Use of Legal Reasoning · 2.4 Deductive and Inductive Reasoning ·
2.5 Fallacies – Typical Errors in Reasoning · 2.6 Legal and Non-Legal, Authoritative and Non-Authoritative Legal Materials · 2.7 Finding of Law
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