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Are any of these viable ideas for an EPQ in law

I want to go into law so am naturally doing an EPQ relating to it, do you think any of these topics are viable to research? I would like to relate my ideas to UK law

- do constitutional laws effectively prevent dictatorships

- to what extent do laws enable capitalism/perpetuate it

- how do laws impact societal attitudes towards certain behaviours

- are fair trails possible

- should mental illnesses such as sociopathy and psychopathy affect sentencing

- do certain laws violate human rights

- are international laws dependant on [western] superpower nations

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These are massive topics - and you'd need an 3-year PhD to research any of them properly.

Pick a very small topic and with a very definite and answerable question. An EPQ is only an extended essay - you are not trying to come up with anything astonishingly new, just proving that you can read books and write an essay on your own. That is all.

Find something simple and where there is lots of fairly basic online material to find and read.
Start with BBC Radio 4 - The Law Show - Available now and find a small topic that interests you.
Do some reading around the questions posed, and then write a well structured essay about what you have found out.

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