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Subject Outline
Casebook: Sources of American Law: An Introduction to Legal Research , By Steenken & Brooks (2019)
Cases
Where Does Law Come From? (LCS04)
Anatomy of a case
Citation Format
ALWD
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Citation Form For Briefs and Legal Memoranda
Vendor Neutral Citation Formats
Finding Cases
How to Find Case Law Using Digests
Using Citators to find cases
Updating and Validating
Statutes
Legislative History
Administrative Law
Introduction to Admin Law
Quasi-legislative - regulations
Quasi judicial
Executive Orders
Internal agency materials
Attorney General materials
Secondary Sources
Introduction: the role of secondary sources in legal research
A.L.R. (American Law Reports)
Subject Specific Treatises
Encyclopedias
Trial Practice Materials
Civil Procedure
Trial Practices
Discovery
Jury Instructions
Periodicals
Researching and Working with Forms
Restatements
Looseleaf Services (LR155)
Format
Contents: Primary materials and secondary
Interfiled and Newsletter
Citator and Finding Aids
Electronic
Using Citators Beyond Case Verification
Using Citators to find secondary sources
Legal Research Strategies
Research Methodology
Legal Research Methodology (LWR07)
Understanding the assignment (time issues, work product required).
Framing the Issue (Issue Statements, search terms)
Preparing Research Plan (identifying research sources)
Search Strategy
Evaluation of Search Strategy
When to Stop Researching
Choosing Appropriate Tools - Research Tools in General
Choosing Appropriate Tools: What Jurisdiction?
When to Stop Researching
Costs of Legal Research
Cost of Legal Research (LR49)
Why cost efficient research is important
How to be a cost effective researcher
Alternative electronic resources to Westlaw and Lexis
Costs of Legal Research: print v. electronic resources
Why cost efficient research is important
How to be a cost effective researcher
Alternative electronic resources to Westlaw and Lexis
Current Awareness and Alerting Services
Current Awareness and Alerting Services (LR94)
Blogs
SSRN and other current awareness networks
Listservs
Newsletters, including email newsletters
Legal Research on the Internet
Evaluation of Internet Resources
Free Resources
Efficient Online Search Techniques
Search techniques – Boolean, etc.
Non-Legal Materials
Directories/Finding People
“Edgar/SEC” like materials
Government Documents
Government Documents (LR96)
SuDoc Classification
Federal Depository Print and electronic
Government statistics
Company Information
Company Research (LWR17)
Information Sought
Uses of company research
Types of companies
Company research sources
Industry research
Medical Information
News
State Legal Research
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
District of Columbia
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Primary & Secondary Resources - in progress
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Primary & secondary resources - in progress
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Primary resources
In progress
Secondary resources
In Progress
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Primary & Secondary Resources - in progress
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Primary resources
Secondary resources
Virginia
Washington
Washington, D.C.
West Virginia
In progress
Primary resources
Secondary resources
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Substantive Specific Areas of Legal Research
Administrative Law
Copyright and Trademark
Health Law
Legal Ethics
Tax Law
Labor and Employment Law
Immigration Law
Environmental Law
Telecommunications
Energy
Patent
Admiralty, maritime
Securities Law
Social Security Law
Consumer Law
Canadian Law
Statutes
Administrative Law
Cases
Secondary Materials
International and Foreign Legal Research
Introduction
Introduction to Foreign Legal Research (LWR32)
Basic Concepts
Defining public and private international law, foreign law, comparative law
Sources of law
Basic reference sources
Dictionaries
Encyclopedias
Periodical indexes
Research guides
Key sources (e.g., ILM, Modern Legal Systems Cyclopedia, Reynolds & Flores)
Foreign Constitutions
Public International Law
Researching treaties and other international agreements
Finding treaties, reservations, and declarations
Treaty status
Travaux preparatoires (treaty history)
Researching treaties: US is a party
Researching treaties: US not a party
Researching other PIL sources
Customary international law
General principles of int’l law
Judicial decisions
International tribunals
Teachings of publicists
US and international law
International Tribunals
International and Foreign LegalResearch - Human Rights (LR76)
Intergovernmental, Supranational, and Non-Governmental Organizations
Intergovenmental Organizations and Non-Governmental Organizations (LR80)
United Nations
Regional organizations
Other IGO's
European Union
Non-governmental organizations
Private International Law
Foreign and Comparative Law
Foreign Legal Systems
Common law systems
Civil law systems
Islamic law systems
Mixed systems
Customary law
Introduction to Foreign Legal Research
Comparative Law
Finding law in translation
Comparative law generally
Topical International and Foreign Legal Research
International Trade
Human Rights
Intellectual Property
Environmental Law
Tax Law
Law of the sea, maritime law
Legal Writing & Analysis
Grammar
Punctuation and Grammar basics
Punctuation and Grammar advanced
Writing
IRAC
Conclusion, Rule, Analysis, Application, Conclusion
Writing Memoranda
Issue Statements
Fact Statements
Application of Facts to Rules
Ethical Issues
Writing a Brief
Persuasive Writing
Writing Exams
Drafting Contracts
Notes, Comments, Seminar Papers and Articles
Plagiarism (see also Ethical Issues)