Online Certificate Course on Legal Research and Writing by Lawctopus Law School [Nov 5 – Jan 5, 2026]: Register by November 5!

Lawctopus Law School has taught over 20,000+ learners and our on-line certificates programs have a mean score of 93.4/100.

Our LIVE programs include weekly reside lectures, rigorously ready studying modules, recorded lectures, sensible assignments, private suggestions, and a 100%, no questions requested a refund assure!

Every batch has a Studying Supervisor who ensures that every one learners have a top quality studying expertise within the course.

How the course will assist you:

Legal analysis and writing are core abilities that every one kinds of authorized professionals require. You can not dispose of these abilities.

Company attorneys, litigators, academicians, judges…everybody simply must be a top quality researcher and author!

The data and abilities you study from the course will assist you:

  • Develop glorious analysis and writing abilities. Know tips on how to begin, how to decide on a subject
  • Write glorious, publishable analysis papers that enhance your ‘self’ and your ‘CV’
  • Write prize-successful moot court docket memorials, high quality analysis papers
  • Draft excessive-high quality authorized opinions as a lawyer
  • Go about footnoting, endnoting, and referencing like a professional
  • Study modifying your piece and presenting it in conferences, seminars
  • Be taught the basic sensible facets of instruments like SCCOnline, Manupatra

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Construction of the Course

Module 1: Introduction to Legal Research

Introduces you to the concept of analysis typically.

It asks: how ought to analysis be accomplished? Everybody has a special reply to this seemingly easy query. This module tells you some widespread solutions and asks you to select the one you want.

Module 2: Legal Research Design and The Research Drawback

Module 2 is about analysis design.

It tells you the steps of a analysis course of and discusses them briefly – selecting the subject and title, understanding and explaining the framework of your analysis, arising with a analysis drawback, making a analysis query & speculation, deciding the analysis methodology & methodology, and writing & presenting the analysis.

Precisely how you are taking these steps relies upon, in fact, on the philosophy (‘reply’) you decide in Module I.

Project: 1

Select a analysis matter, analysis questions, and get private suggestions from our subject material specialists.

Module 3: Research Strategies and Methodology

Module 3 tells you extra concerning the analysis methodology & methodology. What’s “methodology”? What’s “methodology”?

Though you’ll have already learn these phrases in Module II, Module III provides you extra element. It additionally explains how the assorted analysis methodologies may be categorised below the headings qualitative, quantitative, and blended.

Lastly, it tells you which ones methodologies and strategies are greatest suited to doctrinal/analytical and empirical analysis.

Module 4: Doctrinal Legal Research Strategies

Module 4 dives straight into doctrinal/analytical analysis strategies. How do you analysis a given authorized concern? How do you discover the correct laws or case legislation?

This module explains tips on how to greatest use obtainable sources to seek out the authority you want.

Module 5: Empirical Legal Research Strategies

Module 5 is the empirical counterpart of Module IV.

It discusses the assorted sorts of analysis strategies below qualitative in addition to quantitative methodologies.

Project: 2

Submit a tough draft, with the construction of your paper, literature assessment spelt out, and footnotes keyed in.

Get private suggestions once more from our subject material specialists.

Module 6: Legal Writing

Module 6 teaches you the artwork of authorized writing.

The module explains the artwork of clear writing with a structured, nuanced strategy.

Module 7: Presenting and Publishing Legal Research

Module 7 explains tips on how to current authorized analysis verbally.

Presenting in conferences and seminars is a key exercise that helps you develop your analysis additional, disseminate your insights, and construct profession capital. This module will assist you with this.

Module 8: Ethics of Legal Research

Module 8 offers with the ethics of authorized analysis.

What are the practices you should do throughout analysis, and which of them should you keep away from?

This module explains varied eventualities during which ethics change into essential.

Module 9: Citations and Referencing

Module 9 focuses on the important practices of quotation and referencing in authorized analysis.

What are the right methods to quote sources in authorized writing, and how do you guarantee correct attribution?

This module will information you thru the totally different quotation types generally utilized in authorized analysis and display tips on how to correctly reference varied sources, together with circumstances, statutes, books, and journal articles.

Supplementary Module: How you can write Prize Profitable Legal Essays?

What makes a authorized essay stand out in competitions?

On this module, you’ll study confirmed methods for crafting compelling, properly-structured essays that win accolades.

Project: 3

Submission of the ultimate paper. Get private suggestions for the third time by our college!

Project: 4

Presentation of your paper earlier than a panel (for greatest-performing college students)

Assignments Module

The course has a full-fledged ‘Assignments Module’ which addresses the basic, sensible questions of doing authorized analysis and writing like:

  • How you can discover a exact analysis matter?
  • How you can go about crafting analysis questions?
  • How do I discover literature gaps?
  • “Every thing I learn appears alright. I don’t know tips on how to produce one thing novel”.
  • What all ought to I footnote? How do I try this?
  • How do I get revealed in prime legislation journals and win essay competitions?

Course Builders

The course has been ready by Abhayraj Naik, Shrutanjaya Bhardwaj, Anupama Sharma, and Vershika Sharma. The supply of the course shall be accomplished by the e-studying and topic-matter specialists at Lawctopus.

Tanuj Kalia, our CEO, and Jatin Garg (an skilled in authorized tutorial design) have labored intently on the general coordination and planning of the course.

The course has been accomplished by over 5000 learners with a mean score of 92/100.

Belief us, it’s a gem we’ve got on supply!

Abhayraj Naik did his BA LLB (Hons.) from NLSIU Bangalore in 2006 and LLM from Yale Law School in 2009.

He’s presently an impartial researcher and advisor and has beforehand taught in faculties like JGLS, Azim Premji College, and NLSIU. He has additionally been a analysis fellow at SARAI-CSDS, and a researcher on the Surroundings Help Group in Bangalore.

Shrutanjaya Bhardwaj is the lead researcher and content material developer of this course and labored intently below the steering of Abhayraj. He accomplished his BA LLB (Hons.) from NLUD in 2017 the place he was awarded the Vice Chancellor’s Gold Medal for the Finest General Scholar (Male).

He then labored on the chambers of Gopal Sankarnarayanan for a 12 months and then went on to finish LLM from Michigan Law School in 2019.

Prof. Anupama Sharma is an Assistant Professor at JGLS, Sonipat. She has accomplished B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) from the NUJS, Kolkata in 2014, and LL.M. from the College of Cambridge, UK in June 2015, and is presently pursuing her Ph.D. from the College of Hong Kong.

She has been part of varied analysis tasks run by establishments and organizations, resembling Cambridge Professional Bono Mission, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), Worldwide Justice Mission, and many others. She has additionally been a Legislative Overview Crew member for the Journal of Indian Law and Society (JILS).

Rabindra Kumar Mitra is a legislation graduate from Nationwide Law College, Odisha, presently training as a Counsel in Calcutta. He repeatedly seems in Arbitration, Firm Law, Civil, and Business issues earlier than the Excessive Courtroom at Calcutta, NCLT, DRT and Arbitral Tribunals.

Rabindra has expertise as a college member at CLATapult and has additionally contributed to iPleaders.in as a Freelance Editor.

Rabindra has developed the module “How you can Write Prize-Profitable Legal Essays” for this course.

Mansi Mankotia graduated with a B.A.LL.B (Hons.) from H.P. College in 2020 and pursued an LLM specializing in prison legislation from NLU Shimla. At the moment, Mansi is devoted to advancing her experience by way of a PhD in Law. With skilled expertise as an in-home counsel, she presently serves as a Studying Supervisor at Lawctopus Law School, contributing to the event and supply of sensible legislation programs.

Who is that this course for?

  • Undergraduate and postgraduate college students of legislation.
  • College members within the fields of legislation, social sciences, and enterprise wishing to revisit the basic of authorized analysis and writing.
  • Younger attorneys (each litigators and these working in legislation corporations who’re taken with these subjects.
  • College students of different streams taken with gaining authorized analysis and writing abilities

Learner’s Suggestions

Course Particulars

Length: 8 weeks.

Charges: Rs. 10,000 – Rs. 5,999

Life-time Entry

By buying this course, you might be granted lifetime entry.

Life-time entry implies that the course entry shall be obtainable to you so long as the corporate continues to supply the course or stays in existence. Within the occasion the course is discontinued or the corporate ceases operations, entry to the course will now not be obtainable.

Mode of studying:

  • Utterly on-line and self-paced. (Apart from the weekly reside periods. The recordings of the reside periods can be obtainable)
  • Detailed studying modules and sources
  • Recorded video lectures
  • Weekly reside lectures which construct on the studying modules, clear your doubts, clarify assignments, and many others.
  • Online discussion board for doubt clarification
  • Common communication over Whatsapp and Electronic mail in order that you don’t miss any reside class or task deadline. We deeply ‘care’ in your studying.
  • Project: submission of a brief analysis paper (this task is split into 3 mini-assignments)
  • Private 3-degree suggestions on your assignments.
  • Non-obligatory reflective workouts
  • Recorded webinars on careers in authorized analysis, CV-constructing, incomes by way of freelancing, and many others.
  • Entry to alumni group which is able to hold you up to date about future profession alternatives

We exit of our strategy to help our college students!

  • Reside orientation session which tells you about our platform and tips on how to make full use of the course.
  • A broadcast-solely Whatsapp group to examine updates simply and quick.
  • Entry to recorded model of the reside lectures in case you miss attending them reside!

Add-on advantages:

  • Get a certificates issued by Lawctopus Law School after the profitable completion of the course. (Don’t fear, in case you put in a honest effort on this course, you’ll get a certificates. We’re liberal in our markings and provide you with a second likelihood. We do need honest efforts from our learners).
  • Free profession counselling, CV, and profession steering webinars for everybody.
  • An opportunity to get revealed on Academike, Lawctopus’ Law Journal (ISSN: 2349-9796).
  • A possibility to mentor future batches for senior college students, academicians, and practitioners (this can be a paid, half-time, work-from-house place at Lawctopus)
  1. Our college students have gotten their articles revealed on the next platforms:
    • NUALS Law Journal
    • LiveLaw
    • LawAndOtherThings
    • Law School Coverage Overview
  2. A number of the achievements of our college students/tasks our college students are working on:
    • Presenting their papers in a world seminar on Liberty
    • Securing a Research Assistantship with a Professor from the Oxford College
    • Working on a authorized historical past undertaking within the Bombay Excessive Courtroom.
    • Securing a analysis internship with a number one training supplier
    • Profitable prime-notch authorized essay writing competitions
    • Securing internships and freelance gigs primarily based on their writing samples
  3. Due to the superb analysis, writing, and modifying abilities, a lot of our college students submit higher CVs and writing samples which has result in a dozen of internship provides.
  4. A lot of our college students have received the nation’s greatest authorized essay writing competitions after this course!

These are simply indicative listing of achievements. Whereas these achievements are as a result of college students’ personal initiative and laborious work, they’ve informed us that the course helped them in direction of these, and we couldn’t be happier!

This course teaches you Legal Research and Writing from A to Z!

Whether or not you’re a 1st-12 months legislation scholar from a lesser-ranked legislation school, whether or not you might be an skilled college member who already has a Ph.D. or you might even be a training lawyer wishing to know what the precise course of behind high quality authorized analysis and writing can seem like, you’ll discover this course of nice utility and spark!


FAQs [click on the Qs to read the As]:

1. Do we’ve got a reside class each day?

No. You’ll have 7-8 reside lectures every lasting roughly 90 minutes.

The schedule of the reside periods is launched when the course begins.

Most of our reside periods occur on weekends or on late evenings so that every one learners (college students or
working professionals) can attend them with out skipping their common courses or workplace.

2. What number of hours ought to I spend each day to finish the course?

We propose that you simply spend roughly 3-5 hours/week doing the course.

Once you spend these 3-5 hours is as much as you. You might spend round 40 minutes every day or do it over the weekend.

3. I’ve by no means accomplished any analysis or writing. Can I do that course?

Sure, this course is designed to assist an absolute beginner to study the basics and nuances of authorized analysis and writing.

Even senior academicians discover the course of immense use.

If you’re an expert seeking to enhance their analysis and writing abilities, this course will assist you too.

4. What if I miss a reside class?

We encourage you to attend the reside courses after thorough preparations.

Similar to the true appeal of a reside match/efficiency is watching it reside, the true worth of a reside class is in attending it reside! Loads of new, sensible issues are lined; and in fact, your questions are addressed too.

Nevertheless, in case you miss the reside class, you possibly can watch the recorded model of the reside class which is uploaded for the particular batch solely.

5. How will this course assist me in my profession?

Good analysis and writing abilities are completely essential (no questions requested) for any data skilled.

Each authorized skilled, whether or not a company lawyer or a litigator, a decide or an academician, requires good authorized analysis and writing abilities.

By means of this course, you’ll study these core abilities.

Think about this: even your CV and cowl letters are evaluated by recruiters as quick writing samples. Is it written properly, formatted properly? Curiously, our college students have informed us that after this course their internship purposes which have been rejected earlier at the moment are getting accepted!

Good analysis, writing, and presentation abilities are transferable to a number of domains.
The course may even assist you do properly in moots, publications, and conferences and seminars.

6. What are the assignments within the course?

There is just one obligatory task: submission of a 1500-2500 phrase quick analysis essay.

The task is split into 3 mini-assignments. Submission of:
1. A analysis matter and questions
2. Submission of a tough draft with references and footnotes
3. Ultimate analysis paper

Every mini-task is adopted by suggestions from the college. Every scholar is given suggestions. We pleasure ourselves on having the ability to give personalised, 3-degree suggestions.

7. Will the course assist me do an ‘X’ or a ‘Y’ draft?

The intention of the course is to show you authorized analysis and writing abilities.

Any sort of authorized drafting, civil or prison or company, requires good analysis and writing abilities.

The main target of this course just isn’t on explicit drafts, however on authorized analysis and writing because the broader talent-set. Your drafting will certainly enhance after doing this course.

8. Can I do that course with out getting access to Manupatra, SCCOnline, library?

Sure.

There are a lot of free, open sources obtainable on-line that may assist you along with your analysis. SSRN, Google Scholar, ResearchGate, IndianKanoon, Authorities web sites, and many free and open legislation journals (each from India and overseas), are a superb repositories of data, data, and insights.

We additionally present a listing of such sources.


If you’re busy on this timeframe, take into account registering for our future batches.

You’ll be able to register for the subsequent two batches by registering here.

A scholarship of Rs. 1000 is given to the early birds who register prematurely!


Need assistance to resolve? Be happy to achieve out to us on these channels.

Telephone calls/WhatsApp Quantity: 935 968 4056 (Aaditya Kashyap, Profession Counsellor, Lawctopus Law School)

Electronic mail: [email protected]