25 Useful Ideas for Research Paper Topics on Legal Issues

Writing about legal issues can look like a challenging task, but it may become much easier with proper preparation. To write a really great paper you should start with the search of the proper topic and finding a proper case. Here are some useful tips that can help you in it.

There are a lot of special magazines, both online and offline that publish lots of cases connected with any branch of law. You may look through them to get the idea about the legal issues you may use for the research. Usually in such magazines the case goes together with minimal analysis that also can be handy in writing your paper.

Another approach is to try narrowing down the topic, for example choosing between civil and criminal law and then going deeper and deeper until you get the branch of law that is possible to analyse in a single research paper. Then you may start to search for the cases connected with it. You will already have all the keywords and understand the direction, so the search will take much less time than it could.

In both cases keep in mind the timeframe and cultural context of the legal issue of your choice. It is very important to understand the state of the law at that time and in that place to fully and thoroughly study the case and present it to the audience. If this is a challenge for you, try to choose present time and your own country, just to keep it simple.

Take a look at our list of sample topics, maybe they will help you find your own direction and get inspired!

1. Unresolved law issues
2. Law conflicts and issues connected with them
3. Outdated laws
4. Legal issues connected with cultural context
5. Legal issues connected with religion
6. What evidences can be accepted in the courtroom?
7. Shall cameras be installed in every courtroom?
8. Legal issues connected with corruption
9. Cases of citizen versus country
10. Legal issues and criminal business
11. Legal issues and animal rights
12. Legal issues connected with gender
13. Legal issues of military veterans
14. Laws, inclusion and people with disabilities
15. Cases of crimes committed by mentally challenged people
16. International law issues
17. Discrimination law issues
18. Sexual harassment law issues
19. Immigration law issues
20. Hostile work environment law issues
21. Law issues connected with First Amendment
22. Censorship law issues
23. Family laws legal issues
24. Legal issues connected with mafia
25. Business laws legal issues. The cases of big corporations