ABSTRACT
Tackling methodology can cause anxiety even with a more seasoned researcher. It is nowhere near as daunting as it seems once law student get started. The easiest way to describe methodology is, simply, methods of research. Legal research has traditionally been dominated by blackletter or doctrinal research. Socio-legal research has transformed legal research. In addition to these dominating methods of legal research, dissertation students often draw from law reform and comparative law methodologies. Socio-legal scholars also often have a focus that is not purely legal, such as gendered or racial issues within particular laws, or within certain decisions. Socio-legal researchers draw from source materials that are not purely legal, and from other disciplines. The legal system law student have studied is the common law system and ideally the point of comparison would be a common law system. Learning an entirely new legal system in the final year of their studies might be overwhelming and too time-consuming.
