Lessons by Subject Outline - Legal Research and Writing
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Subject Outline
- 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
- People and Association Directories
- Print and online
- “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
- In progress
- Primary resources
- Secondary resources
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- 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
- Primary & Secondary Resources - In progress
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- Primary & Secondary resources - in progress
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- Primary resources
- Secondary resources
- New York
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- Primary & Secondary Resources - in progress
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Primary & Secondary Resources - in progress
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Vermont
- Primary resources
- Secondary resources
- Virginia
- Washington
- West Virginia
- In progress
- Primary resources
- Secondary resources
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
- Washington, D.C.
- 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)