Laura Lammasniemi is an Assistant Professor at Warwick School of Law. She has convened dissertation modules in several institutions and her teaching focuses on dissertations and on criminal law. Lammasniemi has published extensively in the areas of criminal law and gender, mainly from a historical perspective. In 2020, she was awarded the Leverhulme Research Fellowship to work on a project exploring the history of sexual consent in criminal courts, 1870-1950. Lammasniemi has spoken at the House of Commons on the issue of human trafficking and has participated in BBC TV and radio shows as a legal history expert.

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Finding and perfecting your topic

Chapter 3: From a topic to a question

Chapter 4: Creating a good research proposal

Chapter 5: Planning the project

Chapter 6: Creating a research plan

Chapter 7: Online research

Chapter 8: Legal research methods and approaches

Chapter 9: Empirical research

Chapter 10: Assessing literature

Chapter 11: Literature review

Chapter 12: Writing the dissertation

Chapter 13: Referencing

Chapter 14: Structuring the dissertation

Chapter 15: Navigating supervision

Chapter 16: Aiming for a first and avoiding fails

Chapter 17: Preparing for submission

Bibliography

Index