Guided Research LAW 723
Course Number: LAW 723; ULWR
Course Credits: 1 or 2
The following are the guidelines for Guided Research Projects:
- Student must obtain approval of the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs no later than the last day of the Drop/Add period by providing a written research proposal approved by the supervising faculty member.
- The proposal must be supervised by a Full-time faculty member, OR by an Adjunct faculty member with prior permission of the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.
- Guided Research Project Request Form (available at the Registrar's Office) must be submitted to the Associate Dean for approval, after proposal is approved by supervising faculty member.
- Only available to students with a cumulative GPA of 3.00 (B) or a B+ average in the particular subject area in which the research is undertaken.
- Available for 1 or 2 credits only. Papers should be 25 pages or more for 2 credits and 15 pages or more for 1 credit.
- No more than one project may be undertaken in a semester.
- No more than two such projects may be applied for credit towards the Juris Doctor degree.
- Faculty member may supervise only three projects in a semester.
- Final paper, after grading, must be filed with the Registrar.
The Research Proposal must be prepared in the following form:
- Problem: A precise statement of the particular inquiry to be undertaken.
- Approach: Various questions that need to be raised and investigated in order to explore the problem.
- Method of inquiry: Published materials, interviews, simulations, experiments, and other methods of inquiry intended to be used.
- Data: Indication of the nature of data contemplated, not a bibliography, namely:
a. Primary data: reports, cases, hearings, case studies, and the like.
b. Secondary data: writing of scholars.
Indication must also be made of the various disciplines, in addition to law, whose data need be investigated.