Law: Study Skills

Study skills encompasses the academic and professional skills which enable you to succeed at university.

Study skills includes reading, note-taking, critical thinking, planning, writing, referencing, presentation, revision and examination skills. For law students, they might also include advocacy, negotiation, debating and mooting.

This guide highlights a range of study skills courses, events and books available to law students on transition to university, for assessments and examinations, and for dissertations and theses.

Library Online Courses

The library has a range of self-study courses to support study skills from library inductions for new students, literature searching, academic writing, plagiarism and referencing, to mindfulness and meditation.

Get Started:
Library Induction

Finding Information:
Research for Assignments

Understanding Information:
In Academia and Beyond

Introduction to
Academic Writing

Presenting and Visualising Information

Mindful Library:
Mindfulness for Students

New for 2024/25, LinkedIn Learning is now available to all university students and staff. 

LinkedIn Learning is an online learning platform of 20,000+ personal development courses including business and management, information technology and creative skills, keeping you up-to-date in the classroom and workplace. Choose courses on a range of topics including:

• Organisation skills, time-management, note-taking, touch-typing, presentation skills
• English language: spelling, punctuation and grammar, writing for business
• Mathematics and computing: basic maths, statistics, maths for computing
• Microsoft Office training: Outlook, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, PowerBi, CoPilot
• Computer coding: C#, Java, Python, R, Stata, SPS, SQL
• Technology: artificial intelligence, cloud computing, cyber security, data analysis
• Management and leadership: agile working, change management, project management

Find out more about LinkedIn Learning from the university's Information and Digital Group including how LinkedIn Learning can recommend courses to make your personalised professional development programme.

Legal Skills
by Emily Finch and Stefan Fafinski

Legal Systems and Skills by Scott Slorach and others

Learning Legal Rules
by James Holland and Julian Webb

Practical English Language Skills for Lawyers by Natasha Costello and Louise Kulbicki

Legal Writing
by Lisa Webley

Legal Writing Skills
by Steve Foster

How to Write Law Essays and Exams
by Stacie Strong

A Practical Guide to Lawyering Skills
by Fiona Boyle and Deveral Capps

How to Moot
by John Snape and Gary Watt

Mooting: The Definitive Guide to a Key Legal Skill by Eric Baskind

Advocacy for SQE2
by Rita D'Alton-Harrison