LEGAL RESEARCH PROPOSAL AND ITS ENTAILS

Abstract

This article addresses the essential elements which are required for writing reference with specific focus to the legal research proposal. An author intends to articulate organised structure and methods as required to appear in to any legal proposal research which at the end of the intended work; a student shall be able to present findings and conclusion through broken and clear steps which were taken at the beginning of the thesis/dissertation. This article is divided in to three (3) categories including introduction, main theme of the article and concluding remarks purposely to provide clear picture to the legal research student (s) and to understand the contents of this article. Introduction is the first category to be presented in this article. An author intends to provide a general idea of the entire article and its scope by identifying objective(s) and purposely for the legal research student to understand what are supposed to have in their head(s) before staring writing research legal proposal. The second category of this article covers the main theme of the article. At this category, an author articulate parts of legal research proposal including research title, statement of the problem, research question(s), objectives and hypotheses of the research, and research methodology. Research title is the first thing for a research student to bear in her/his mind in order to frame adequate and reliable research questions which are accompanied by the statement of the problem. Having an idea of a research work, a researcher will provide reliable hypothesis scenario of its work that idea will formulate adequate hypothetical question(s) to assist a research student to have a focused work ahead; and apart from that, that idea will formulate a concise statement of the problem and research question(s). statement of the problem and research questions are the key instruments for any legal research; these two aspects are useful and important because if there are no statement of the problem and research question(s) that means there is nothing to search for. And further to that, an author intends to prescribe styles and formatting of research methodology how should be conducted in order to provide sufficient information and indications of reliable source for a legal research student to conduct its information including desktop research, interview and conversations research, and case study research. And the last part of this article covers a concluding remark from the articulated essential elements on writing legal research proposal purposely to bring to an end of this article. “Everywhere, our knowledge is incomplete and problems are waiting to be solved. We address the void in our knowledge and those unresolved problems by asking relevant questions and seeking answers to them. The role of research is to provide a method for obtaining those answers by inquiringly studying the evidence within the parameters of the scientific method”. - Leedy