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• Title:Legal research demystified : a step-by-step approach / Eric P. Voigt.
  
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• Author/Creator:Voigt, Eric P., author.
  
• Published/Created:Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, [2022]
  

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  • Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: KF240 .V53 2022
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Legal research--United States.
  
• Edition:Second edition.
  
• Description:xxvii, 338 pages: illustrations, map 26 cm
  
• Summary:"Legal Research Demystified offers a real-world approach to legal research for first-year law students. The book guides students through eight steps to research common law issues and ten steps to research statutory issues. It breaks down the research steps and process into "bite-size" pieces for novice researchers, minimizing the frustration often associated with learning new skills. This text also gives students context, explaining why and when a source or finding tool should be used when researching the law. The process of legal research, of course, is not linear. This book constantly reminds students of the recursive nature of legal research, and it identifies specific situations when they may deviate from the research steps. Through the book's step-by-step approach, students will connect seemingly unrelated tools (e.g., citators and the Key Number System) and understand how to leverage them to answer legal questions. Every chapter includes charts, diagrams, and screen captures to illustrate the research steps and finding methods. Each chapter concludes with a "summary of key points" section that reinforces important concepts from the chapter. This book provides students and professors with multiple assessment tools. Each chapter ends with true-false and multiple-choice questions that test students' understanding of chapter content. These questions are replicated on the book's companion website, Core Knowledge. Students may answer these end-of-chapter questions, as well as more advanced questions, on Core Knowledge and receive immediate feedback, including an explanation of why the answer is correct or incorrect. Professors can generate reports to track students' performance. Based on students' performance, professors will know whether to review a topic in more detail or to move to the next topic. (New books contain an access code to Core Knowledge; students purchasing used books can buy an access code separately.)"-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781531021306 paperback
  1531021301 paperback
  9781531021313 electronic book
  
• Contents:The federal and state systems : three branches of government
  Binding and nonbinding legal authorities
  The publication process for cases and the anatomy of a case
  The publication process for statutes and the anatomy of a statutory code
  Step 1 : create a research plan
  Step 2 : research every unfamiliar legal issue with secondary sources
  Step 3 : research cases by topic
  Step 4 : use a reliable citator to find additional relevant cases and to confirm their validity
  Step 5 : perform keyword searches in the relevant caselaw databases
  Step 6 : expand your research within the controlling jurisdiction, if necessary
  Step 7 : research cases from outside the controlling jurisdiction, if necessary
  Step 8 : use a reliable citator to re-confirm the validity of each relevant case
  Step 3 : find all relevant statutes
  Step 4 : Confirm the validity of each relevant statute, determine each statute's effective date, and identify all amendments
  Step 5 : Read all relevant statutes critically
  Step 6 : Research and update administrative regulations and find cases that have interpreted them
  Step 7 : Research cases from the controlling jurisdiction that have interpreted relevant statutes
  Step 8 : Research the legislative history of relevant statutes, if necessary
  Step 9 : Research comparable statutes and cases from other jurisdictions, if necessary
  Step 10 : Use a reliable citator to re-confirm the validity of each relevant authority.