Postgraduate - UnitBEX6990 - Research Strategies and Methods in Business Law

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2015 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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0 points, SCA Band 3, 0.000 EFTSL

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Level	Postgraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Business and Economics
Offered	Not offered in 2015
Coordinator(s)	Dr Carolyn Sutherland

Synopsis

This unit provides students with the skill and proficiency to conduct HDR research in business law. The aim of the unit is to assist students to develop research capabilities in the following areas: formulating research questions for legal problems; selecting a research purpose and theoretical perspective; approaches to the literature review; developing complex arguments; organising and structuring content in a law thesis; advanced writing techniques; ethical issues that arise in legal research; and presenting and publishing research in business law. The unit will also guide students to understand and evaluate legal research perspectives and methodologies that suit different types of research problems in business law. These will include traditional doctrinal approaches; comparative legal methods; legal realist, law in action and critical legal studies perspectives; legal history and empirical legal methods.

Outcomes

The learning goals associated with this unit are to:

increase understanding of the practical challenges that arise in business law research
translate a business law problem into a research problem and research questions and devise an effective research strategy
develop capabilities in producing complex and coherent arguments as required for a thesis in business law
apply relevant theories and methodologies to research problems in business law.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 100%

Workload requirements

72 hours per semester of formal class contact, plus an additional 168 hours of private study. Also see unit timetable informationunit timetable information (http://www.monash.edu.au/timetables/).

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Carolyn Sutherland

Prerequisites

Students will be required to achieve a mark of at least 70% in all mandatory 6000 level coursework units which need to be completed prior to confirmation.

Co-requisites

Students must be enrolled in course code 0029 to undertake this unit.