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"Turf Moor is a difficult place to go," he admitted. "The fans are on top of you it'll be quite hostile. You can't say that we are favourites because we have just come up and they were playing in the Premier League last season, but you can say that we will go there with confidence and I'm sure they'll give us respect.
"They are a good team and have some real and have some real strengths, but there are weaknesses as well and that's what we have to try and exploit."
The cricket field stand will be full this afternoon, and it is quite some time since it was last completely sold out by the visiting club, and Laws hopes that the home fans respond in today's atmosphere.
"Leeds is a massive club, which is certainly on the up now," Laws said. "They have been on a downward spiral for quite a while but you can see things are turning now. One thing that doesn't change with them is the fans. They are strong in the sense that they will come and support them through thick and thin.
"The travelling support is going to be strong and we have to make sure that while they might have three or four thousand on we have to be more vocal than they are. The only way we can achieve that, and get them to do that, is to give the supporters some ammunition and that means they need the players to perform."
Leeds were in action last Saturday whilst Burnley had to sit it out after the postponement of the game at Portsmouth, and Laws added: "When you haven't played a game and one or two teams have, it sends a more important message to say that we have got to go out and win the game. "And if we achieve that we can overtake Leeds and push ourselves back into the top six.
"It's an important game for everybody. It can cement their position in there but it can also cement ours. It's a chance for both clubs to be positive.
"If you can get through to the Christmas period in the right position then you kick on. That's the time, come January. That's when the league levels out, the teams which are there or thereabouts push on and it very rarely changes from that period onwards.
"Teams will strengthen in January, as we hope we do, and it's an important period where we have to stay in it, so the results will be vital between now and the mid-January period."