Legal analysis, research, and writing skills are essential for successful completion of your law degree and will equip you with many transferable skills for future study and professional life. You must learn how to analyse legal problems, research the relevant law and apply the law to the problems. This course is intended to provide an introduction to these skills which will be honed by your further legal studies and application of the skills.This course is very much “hands on”, as it will aid your learning by preparing answers to legal research problems. The problems may be from a variety of legal areas. By analysing these problems you will identify the legal issues that need to be researched. You will then be introduced to legal research resources, both paper and electronic, and guided through the research needed to provide a framework for your answers to the problems. The presentation of your answers is of the utmost importance. Lawyers must be effective communicators and have a command of language both written and oral. This course will introduce you to clear and effective presentation of your answers in writing and orally. For both writing and oral presentation you will learn how to structure, explain and support your legal analysis.Law differs from many other disciplines as you may be writing or presenting for many different audiences. Thus you may have to prepare answers to legal problems which are to be presented to your professors, a client, colleagues in a law firm, or in court. The skills required to prepare a summary of the relevant law for a busy partner in a firm are very different from those required for your legal essays as an undergraduate. You will also be taught how to make your presentation persuasive if appropriate. You will be encouraged to consider for whom you are researching and ensure that your writing and presentation is appropriate for your audience. You may be required to prepare the answers to these problems in written form, as short essays or legal memoranda, or orally, by way of short presentations before your peers or in a moot.The course will be taught by way of lectures and tutorials. In the lectures your professors will introduce legal problems to you and explain how they are analysed, how they are researched and how this research is then applied to the problem to prepare answers. In the tutorials you will provide the analysis, research and answers.