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IMPORTANT DATES
Last date to Enroll | 30 June 2021 |
Course Start Date | 17 July 2021 |
Course Duration | 2 months |
Last date to submit Final Paper | 1 Dec 2021 |
Once live classes end, students will continue to have access to course materials and recordings till 1 Dec 2021 (Course Closing Date). |
Course Overview
REGISTRATION FOR THE COURSE
ASSIGNMENTS, CERTIFICATES AND GRADING
Instructors
SHASHIKANT YADAV
Shashikant Yadav is a writer, energy law researcher, and academic with more than seven years of experience in legal research and writing. He has been associated with the University of Dundee, Scotland, as an academic researcher and is currently affiliated with Central European University, Vienna.
Recently, he reviewed Columbia Law School’s Sabin Centre for Climate Change Law Report’s titled “Legal Levers for Cleaner Air in Kolkata”. His work, mostly on natural resources law, is published with: The Ecologist (UK); The Wire; The Hindu; The Swaddle; The Sunday Statesman; The Hindu Businessline, among others.
His academic work is published with leading (Scopus indexed) journals, including Journal of Energy and Natural Resources Law; Economic and Political Weekly, Global Energy Law and Sustainability, Edinburgh University Press.
GUEST LECTURER: ABHINANDAN MALIK
Abhinandan Malik is Director Publications at EBC, India's top law publisher with a demonstrated history of working in publishing, the information technology and services industry. He is a graduate of NALSAR University of Law with an LLM from the University of Toronto. He is skilled in E-Learning, Legal Assistance, Legal Research, and Legal Writing.
He has 10 + years of editorial experience, conceptualising, guiding and editing publications at EBC. He has also authored the course on Contract Law at EBC Learning and is fond of guiding students, especially in the area of legal writing. At NALSAR he was the founder editor of an inter-law school magazine and law review called The Edict. It comprised students from the top national law schools across India as editors.
At the University of Toronto, he specialised in private law. His thesis was on the Horizontal Application of Fundamental Rights. He was also invited to be part of the Academic Council for the Refresher Program in Law titled “Evolutions in Legal Pedagogy” offered by NALSAR University, under the Ministry of Human Resource Development.
Course introduction and timetable
1. Week 1: Selecting your topic and identifying legal issues
I. LIVE CLASS 1: Introduction and orientation
1.1 Video: Welcome
1.2 Video: Who is a ‘law’ researcher?
1.3 Video: Approaches to legal scholarship
1.4 Video: Research methodology: prognostic or diagnostic?
1.5 Video: No to shortcuts: choosing a topic
II. Practice Exercises
III. Pre-Class Assignment: Selecting your tentative topic
IV. LIVE CLASS Workshop 1: Identifying your topic and legal issues
V. Post-Class Assignment: Submit a tentative topic for your article
2. Week 2: Literature review
I. Introduction
2.1 Video: Literature review
2.2 Video: Applicability of literature review beyond academia
2.3 Video: Objectivity in your research
II. Homework Exercises
III. Pre-Class Assignment: Identify the legal gap that your paper has filled
IV. LIVE CLASS Workshop 6: How to review literature?
V. Post-Class Assignment: Finalise the research gap that you wish to address
3. Week 3: Thinking it through and outlining
I. Introduction
II. Pre-Class Assignment: Trace an author's argument and identify the core argument
III. LIVE CLASS Workshop 3: Class on organising your thoughts and identifying legal issues
IV. Post-Class Assignment: Submit flowchart and core argument
4. Week 4: Getting your logic and reasoning right
I. Introduction
4.1 Video: Introduction to analogical reasoning
4.2 Video: Analogical reasoning and judicial precedents
4.3 Video: How to identify ratio and obiter
II. Practice Exercises
III. LIVE CLASS Workshop 4: Logic and reasoning
IV. Post-Class Assignment: Know and check your reasoning
5. Week 5: Undertaking comparative and interdisciplinary research
I. Introduction
5.1 Video: Introduction to comparative and interdisciplinary research
5.2 Video: Steps in contemporary research
II. Practice Exercises
III. Pre-Class Assignment: Find a suitable comparator
IV. LIVE CLASS Workshop 5: Identifying comparative and multidisciplinary elements
V. Post-Class Assignment: Identify comparative and multidisciplinary elements in your paper
6. Week 6: Using empirical tools in research
I. Introduction
6.1 Video: Introduction to empirical research
6.2 Video: Steps in empirical research
II. Practice Exercises
III. Pre-Class Assignment: Identify a paper that uses empirical research
IV. LIVE CLASS Workshop 6: How to use empirical tools in research?
V. Post-Class Assignment: Evaluate the empirical scope of your paper
7. Week 7: Editing and refinements
I. Introduction
7.1 Video: Legal writing sins
7.2 Video: What serious researchers write?
7.3 Video: Do’s and don’ts when you want to get published
7.4 Video: Performance indicators in research
II. Practice Exercises
III. LIVE CLASS Workshop 7: Substantive and technical editing
IV. Post-Class Assignment: Editing text
8. One-on-one feedback session and final paper submission
8.1 LIVE CLASS 8: Schedule a one-on-one session with your instructors
8.2 Final paper submission
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