How to do legal research effectively?

The ideas for your research can come from following contemporary issues and reading newspapers. For example, since the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic there have been a lot of news stories that talk about the social and legal impacts of the pandemic regionally and globally. These could certainly provide ideas to do a dissertation on this topic and prove to be a starting point for your research. For instance, if you focus on the potential legal impact of the pandemic, then you could use a website called lexology.com that can provide further inspiration and refine your research topic. 

Your research will usually be a little bit unstructured to begin with, so as you look on search engines to find relevant blog articles and newspapers articles, you will eventually gain a basic understanding of the issues you would be dealing with. After this, you can turn to look at journal articles for inspiration, and should make note of the articles cited by other authors in journals so you can read these articles yourself. You should always be very selective with your research and only read things fully where you feel it would provide suitable and engaging content for your dissertation – sometimes you will find that once you begin to read an article it soon becomes clear that this is not useful so you can stop reading it and do not include it in your literature review. 

 

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