Legal Research Training for Non-lawyers

This course is designed to meet the needs of non-lawyers and those who are involved in CSOs/CBOs activities but have little background knowledge of Myanmar Law and Legal research. The course aims to upgrade the research skills of the participants, enable them to produce professional-quality research and provide exposure to a variety of special topics in legal analysis. The primary goal of this course is to help participants understand how different legal research methods can complement each other to create high-quality research and to build a community of scholars that provides substantive yet critical assessments of research progress, as opposed to a mastery of individual research methods alone. 

The course will strive to balance discussions of research methods that may be new to many researchers, and discussion of their own research proposals/research projects. The course topics cover types of legal research and current trends in legal research, searching sources of International law and Myanmar Laws and interpretation of legal texts, formulating research design, research ethics, data collection and analysis of data, reporting the research, and integration of legal research in social science research/policy report/ INGO research.