Doctoral Research Masterclasses in Law 2025
Day 1: The Institute Of Advanced Legal Studies Role In National PhD Education
Date: 19 March 2025
Doctoral Research Masterclasses in Law
IALS offers a new research training programme, 'Doctoral Research Masterclasses in Law' to assist MPhil and PhD students in law registered at universities across the UK. New for 2025, this programme, provides the chance for informative discussion, legal research guidance and opportunities for networking. MPhil/PhD law students from across the UK are warmly invited to attend these specially tailored days of presentations and networking opportunities at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. You are welcome to book for one or more sessions as fits best for you.
Programme for 2025
Day 1: The Institute Of Advanced Legal Studies Role In National PhD Education
Topics include:
- Introduction to IALS and its role as a national educator of PhD students
- Introduction to IALS Library and its role as the national centre for legal research resources
- Introduction to Doctoral Masterclasses - a series of lectures on doctoral research
- What is a PhD in law?
- The changing requirements for obtaining a PhD
- Managing the supervisory relationship
- Decolonising Legal Research
Day 2: Sources and Theories
Topics to be covered include:
- Library assistance in research
- IALS Library: successful researching, using our electronic resources
- The foreign, international and comparative law research collections at IALS Library
- Theoretical and Multidisciplinary frameworks
- Theoretical Frameworks an Introduction
- Law and Humanities and the Law and Humanities Research Hub
- Law and Technology
Day 3: The Publishing Imperative
Topics to be covered include:
- Legal writing
- Disseminating your legal research
- Getting your research published in journals
- What books are law publishers looking to publish?
- Open Accessing Publishing
- Tips on keeping up-to-date with your topic after completion
Speakers
Speakers in the series include:
- Professor Carl Stychin, IALS Director
- Dr Mahmood Bagheri, IALS
- Professor Susan Breau, IALS
- Marilyn Clarke, IALS Librarian
- Laura Griffiths, Academic Services Manager, IALS Library
- Sinead Moloney, Editorial Director, Hart Publishing, Oxford
- Dr Nóra Ni Loideain, Director and Senior Lecturer in Law, Information Law & Policy Centre, IALS
- Professor Anat Rosenberg, IALS
- Hester Swift, Foreign and International Law Librarian, IALS Library
- Dr Ben Turner, Cardiff University
- Professor Lisa Webley, University of Birmingham
- Professor Sally Wheeler, Vice-Chancellor, Birkbeck University of London