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• Title:Where the law is : an introduction to advanced legal research / by J.D.S. Armstrong, Christopher A. Knott.
  
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• Author/Creator:Armstrong, J. D. S. (Joanne D. S.)
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Knott, Christopher A.
  
• Published/Created:St. Paul, MN : West, ©2013.
  

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  • Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: KF240 .A76 2013
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Legal research--United States.
  
• Genre/Form:Casebooks (Law)
  
• Edition:4th ed.
  
• Description:xix, 255 p. ; 26 cm.
  
• Series:American casebook series.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780314282330
  0314282335
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Advanced Legal Research: Getting Started
  1.1. What This Book Is About
  1.2. What This Book Is Not About
  1.3. Why You Must Make a Research Plan
  1.4. Documenting What You Find: Citations
  1.5. Documenting What You Find: Formats
  1.6. What Source to Use?
  1.7. Following Tangents: How Much Is Too Much?
  1.8. How to Make a Research Plan
  1.9. Best Uses of Full Text Searching
  1.10. Best Uses of Field-Limited Searching
  1.11. Best Uses of Searching Subject Indexed/Edited Data
  1.12. What You Are Going to Look For
  Table 1.A
  ch. 2 Statutes
  2.1. Statutes First
  2.2. Codes
  2.3. Working With a Statutory Code Index
  Table 2.A Selected Sources for the United States Code
  2.4. Terms to Look Up in Code Indexes
  2.5. Distinctions Between Code Indexes
  2.6. Using a Code Index Online
  2.7. Finding the Statute by Finding a Case
  2.8. Working With the Structure of the Code
  2.9. Code Currency
  2.10. Choosing a Format in Which to Do Your Code Research
  2.11. Choosing a Code Source
  2.12. Codes of the Past
  2.13. Renumbered Codes
  2.14. Session Laws
  2.15. Using Session Laws to Update the Code
  Table 2.B Sources for United States Session Laws
  2.16. Using Session Laws to Find New Laws Without Reference to Earlier Code Sections
  Table 2.C Sources for New Federal Session Laws
  2.17. Citations to Session Laws
  2.18. Choosing a Source for Session Laws
  2.19. Finding Laws That Will Never Make It Into the Code
  2.20. Updating Uncodified Session Laws
  2.21. Statutes More Conveniently Discussed in Their Original Session Law Form
  2.22. Session Law Nomenclature vs. Code Nomenclature
  2.23. Session Laws as Authentication of Code Language
  2.24. Getting From a Code Section to Its Source in the Session Laws
  2.25. Monster Session Laws: Omnibus Statutes
  2.26. Reading the Session Law as an Aid to Understanding the Code
  2.27. Finding Statutes by "Name"
  2.28. Getting From a Session Law to the Corresponding Code Sections
  2.29. Finding Bills
  2.30. Finding a Bill by Subject
  Table 2.D Online Sources of Congressional Bills
  2.31. Finding a Bill by Bill Number, by Date, or by Sponsor
  2.32. Cases Interpreting Statutes
  2.33. Finding Cases in an Annotated Code
  2.34. Currency of the Case Annotations
  2.35. Revision of the Annotations
  2.36. Cases Included in the Annotations
  2.37. Case Annotations in Specialized Sources
  2.38. Using a Citator to Find Cases Interpreting a Statute
  Table 2.E Examples of Specialized Sources of Statute Annotations and How They Work
  2.39. Using Full Text Searching to Find Cases Interpreting a Statute
  2.40. Special Issues in State Statutory Research
  Table 2.F Some Sources of Comparative State Statutes
  ch. 3 Legislative History
  3.1. Legislative History: When and Why?
  3.2. Compiled Legislative Histories
  3.3. Types of Legislative History Documents
  Table 3.A Selected Sources of Compiled Federal Legislative Histories
  3.4. Committee Reports
  Table 3.B Sources for Committee Reports
  3.5. Identifying Committee Reports About a Known Statute or Bill
  3.6. Accessing Congressional Committee Reports
  3.7. Finding Committee Reports by Subject
  3.8. Identifying Congressional Committee Hearings
  3.9. Accessing Congressional Committee Hearings
  Table 3.C Sources of Committee Hearings
  3.10. Unpublished Hearings
  3.11. Identifying and Locating Committee Prints and House and Senate Documents
  3.12. Identifying and Locating Bills as a Source of Legislative History
  3.13. Congressional Record
  Table 3.D Sources of the Congressional Record
  3.14. Congressional Record Pagination
  3.15. Congressional Record Indexing
  3.16. State Legislative History
  ch. 4 Introducing Secondary Sources: Law Review Articles
  4.1. Law Reviews as a Tool for the Legal Researcher
  4.2. Finding Law Review Articles
  Table 4.A Selected Legal Periodical Indexes
  4.3. Looking for Articles by Subject
  4.4. Looking for Articles by Case Name or Citation
  4.5. Looking for Articles About a Statute
  4.6. Looking for an Article by a Particular Author
  4.7. Evaluating the Usefulness of Law Review Articles
  Table 4.B Examples of Sources for Working Papers in Law
  4.8. Using the Footnotes in Law Review Articles
  Table 4.C Selected Dictionaries of Legal Abbreviations
  ch. 5 Cases
  5.1. Core of Our Enterprise
  5.2. Finding All the Right Cases
  5.3. Full Text Searching of Case Law Databases
  5.4. Using Subject Indexes to Case Law: Digests and the Key Number System on Westlaw
  Table 5.A Principal Components of the American Digest System
  5.5. Finding a Topic and Key Number
  5.6. Changes to the Topics and Key Numbers
  5.7. Working With Key Numbers
  5.8. Getting the Most Recent Key Number Indexing
  5.9. Other Subject-Based Searching for Cases
  5.10. Finding Cases by Name
  Table 5.B Some Examples of Non-West Subject Indexes to Cases
  5.11. Finding Cases by Citation
  5.12. Nominative and Other Unfamiliar Reporters
  5.13. Docket Numbers
  5.14. Other Citation Wrinkles
  5.15. Using Indexed and Full Text Searching Together: The Heart of the Case Research Process
  5.16. Researching the Authority for What Seems Like a Hoary or Even Self-Evident Well-Established Principle
  5.17. Proving the Negative
  5.18. When to Stop
  5.19. Federal Case Law
  5.20. Supreme Court Cases
  Table 5.C Selected Sources of Scotus Opinions
  5.21. United States Courts of Appeals
  Table 5.D Selected Sources for Scotus Records and Briefs
  Table 5.E Selected Sources for Scotus Oral Arguments
  Table 5.F Selected Sources for Federal Courts of Appeal Cases
  Table 5.G Selected Sources of Court of Appeals Records and Briefs
  5.22. United States District Courts
  Table 5.H Selected Sources of Federal District Court Cases
  5.23. State Case Law
  5.24. Updating Case Law Research
  ch. 6 Introducing Secondary Sources: Treatises and Other Overviews
  6.1. Treatises
  Table 6.A Sources for Lists of Prominent Treatises
  6.2. Restatements of the Law
  6.3. Encyclopedias
  6.4. American Law Reports: The ALR
  ch. 7 Introducing Secondary Sources: Form Books and Jury Instructions
  7.1. Form Books
  7.2. Word of Caution About Forms
  7.3. General Collections of Forms
  7.4. Subject-Specific Collections of Forms
  7.5. Jurisdiction-Specific Collections of Forms
  7.6. Pattern Jury Instructions
  ch. 8 Sources of Administrative Law
  8.1. Introduction to Administrative Law Research
  8.2. Sources of Administrative Law: The Federal Register
  Table 8.A Where to Find the Federal Register
  8.3. Rules and Regulations Section of the Federal Register
  8.4. Proposed Regulations Section of the Federal Register
  8.5. Notices Section of the Federal Register
  8.6. Reader Aids Section of the Federal Register
  8.7. How the Federal Register Is Actually Used in Legal Research
  8.8. Sources of Administrative Law: The Code of Federal Regulations
  8.9. CFR Basics
  Table 8.B Where to Find the Code of Federal Regulations
  Table 8.C Dates of Annual Revision of CFR Titles
  8.10. Structure of the CFR
  8.11. Titles of the CFR
  Table 8.D Titles of USC and CFR Compared
  8.12. Chapters of the CFR
  8.13. Parts of the CFR
  8.14. Sections of the CFR
  8.15. How to Use the CFR
  8.16. Updating a CFR Section
  8.17. Better Way: The List of Sections Affected
  8.18. Electronic CFRs With Rolling Updates
  8.19. Administrative Hearings and Other Quasi-Judicial Proceedings
  8.20. State Administrative Law Research
  ch. 9 Introducing Secondary Sources: Looseleaf Services
  9.1. Introduction: What This Chapter Is About
  9.2. What Are Looseleafs Used For?
  9.3. Different Kinds of Looseleafs
  9.4. Using a Newsletter-Style Looseleaf
  9.5. Using an Interfiled Looseleaf
  9.6. What Is Not in Looseleafs?
  9.7. Finding a Looseleaf on Your Topic
  9.8. Online Versions of Looseleafs
  ch. 10 Court Rules
  10.1. What Are Court Rules and Why Do They Matter?
  10.2. Federal Court Rules
  10.3. Finding Annotated Federal Court Rules, General and Local
  10.4. Secondary Sources and Federal Rules
  Table 10.A Selected Sources of Annotated Federal Court Rules
  10.5. Federal Court Rules Judicially Considered
  10.6. Using Citators for Updating Federal Court Rules
  10.7. State Court Rules
  10.8. Annotated State Court Rules
  ch. 11 Legal Ethics Research
  11.1. Introduction to Legal Ethics Research
  11.2. Model and Uniform Laws Generally
  11.3. Sources of Authority
  -American Bar Association Ethical Codes and Rules
  11.4. Sources of Authority
  -State Law
  11.5. Sources of Authority
  -"Case Law" Publications
  11.6. Sources of Authority
  -Secondary Sources
  11.7. How Legal Ethics Research Really Works
  Table 11.A Recommended Websites for Legal Ethics Information
  ch. 12 Foreign Law Research
  12.1. Introduction to Foreign Law
  12.2. Major World Legal Systems
  12.3. Guides to Legal Research in Foreign Jurisdictions
  12.4. Methods of Foreign Law Research
  Table 12.A Selected Online Foreign Law Research Guides
  ch. 13 International Law
  13.1. Sources of International Law
  13.2. Treaty Research
  Table 13.A Recommended Treaty Websites
  Contents note continued: 13.3. Intergovernmental Organizations
  13.4. European Union
  13.5. European Union
  -Secondary Sources
  13.6. European Union
  -Statutes
  13.7. European Union
  -Case Law
  13.8. European Union
  -Summing Up
  ch. 14 Municipal Law Research
  14.1. Municipal Law: When, Why and How
  14.2. Municipal Charters
  14.3. Municipal "Session Laws"
  14.4. Municipal Statutory Codes
  14.5. Municipal Decisional Law
  14.6. Doing Comparative Research on Municipal Law
  14.7. Administrative Regulations and Decisions on the Municipal Level
  ch. 15 Where the Law Is
  15.1. General Principles
  15.2. Look for Basic Structures
  15.3. Estimate What Form Your Answer Will Come In
  15.4. Your Strategy Will Depend Upon Your Starting Point. What Do You Know Now?
  15.5. Less You Know, The More Certainly You Need Secondary Sources
  15.6. Secondary Leads to Primary, But There Are Other Ways Around the Circle
  15.7. Official Publications Often Less Useful
  15.8. Human Ordering vs. Machine Recall
  15.9. It Is Very Difficult to Do Effective Statutory Research Online
  15.10. Know Exactly What Legislative Histories Are, and What They Are For
  15.11. Let Someone Else Do the Work for You
  15.12. But Don't Be Afraid to Be the First, If Necessary!
  15.13. Evaluating Sources
  15.14. Afterward: The World of Unpublished Information.