Sources and strategies of legal research /

Osborne, Caroline L.,

Sources and strategies of legal research / Caroline L. Osborne. - xxii, 224 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

مقررات دراسية لطلاب الجامعة 2024.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Authority and the court system -- Legal analysis and legal research -- Research planning - creating a research strategy and documenting your research -- Legal citation -- The judicial opinion -- Statutes and constitutions -- Rules and regulations -- The legal encyclopedia -- Restatements of law -- The legal periodical -- American law reports -- Treatise -- The legal dictionary, publications for law students and finding aids -- The citator -- Find by citation and find by cross-reference -- The index and table of contents -- Researching using the popular names table -- Researching with citators -- Topic and key number/ researching with digests -- Terms and connector searching -- Summary of search strategies -- Compiling the legislative history.

"Sources and Strategies of Legal Research, intended for use in first-year legal writing and research courses, offers a new approach to the course subject matter based on the concept that legal analysis is essential to legal research. This concise book is unique in two ways: it places legal analysis as the focal point of legal research; and it departs from the typical source-specific or bibliographical approach, instead taking a process-oriented approach, focusing on search strategies for efficiently and effectively finding information"--

9781531026233


Legal research--United States.

340.0720973 / O C S