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• Title:The process of legal research / Christina L. Kunz [and others].
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Kunz, Christina L.
  
• Published/Created:New York : Aspen Publishers, ©2004.
  

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  • Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: KF240 .P76 2004
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Legal research--United States.
  Information storage and retrieval systems--Law--United States.
  
• Edition:6th ed.
  
• Description:xxxiii, 489 p. : forms ; 26 cm. + teacher's manual.
  
• Notes:Includes index.
  
• ISBN:073553666X (alk. paper)
  0735540403 (teacher's manual)
  
• Contents:Unit I. Overview
  Ch. 1. lay of the land : the importance of legal research, legal authorities, and research media
  Ch. 2. From curiosity to closure : eight cognitive tasks
  Unit II. Secondary authorities
  Ch. 3. Encyclopedias
  Ch. 4. Treatises
  Ch. 5. Legal periodicals
  Ch. 6. A.L.R. annotations
  Ch. 7. Restatements
  Ch. 8. Additional secondary authorities and strategy
  Unit III. Case law
  Ch. 9. Reporters, digests, and their alternatives
  Ch. 10. Case citators
  Unit IV. Enacted law
  Ch. 11. Codes and session laws
  Ch. 12. Legislative process materials
  Unit V. Administrative materials
  Ch. 13. Regulations
  Ch. 14. Agency decisions
  Ch. 15. Mini-libraries
  Unit VI. Rules of procedure and legal ethics
  Ch. 16. Rules of procedure
  Ch. 17. Rules of professional responsibility
  Unit VII. Conclusion
  Ch. 18. Developing an integrated research strategy
  Research situations and practice sets
  Research situations for unit I eight cognitive tasks and unit II secondary authorities
  Research situation and background reading for unit III case law and unit IV enacted law (state statutes)
  Research situations and practice sets for unit IV chapters 11 and 12 enacted law (federal statutes)
  Research situations and practice set for unit V chapters 13, 14, 15 administrative materials
  Research situation and practice set for unit VI chapter 16 rules of procedure
  Research situation and practice set for unit VI chapter 17 rules of professional responsibility.