The Role of Digital Platforms in Providing Law Dissertation Help to Contemporary Law Students

In today’s classroom of law students and future lawyers, you will find that there is not a single type of help when it comes to completing your law dissertation. This dissertation analyses how the changing digital ecosystem of law dissertation help (with specific reference to the digital and virtual ways that you can assist yourself in completing your dissertation) is affecting how law students conduct their final year research projects and potentially change the way that law students view and interact with traditional forms of law assistance. The dissertation addresses the main research question, which is: what are the ways that digital platforms, add to, change or diminish traditional methods of law assistance. The dissertation utilizes a mixed methods approach consisting of quantitative and qualitative data to create a comprehensive and robust picture of the digital law dissertation assistance landscape. The quantitative portion of the study consisted of 300 law students' responses through a survey (n=300) and the qualitative data was collected from content analysis of a variety of on-line legal communities.