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Research: Instructional Aids for Faculty

Instructional  Aids for Faculty: Legal Research

            A collection of images in pdf file format illustrating federal and
            state West publications such as reporters, annotated codes and digests.
            Also includes a collection of images from popular West secondary
            sources, such as hornbooks, nutshells and form books.


Lecture Support  & Presentations
Comprehensive lectures designed for use by instructors.  These are large files. I was unable to create links to individual documents because of file size.
Some of the lectures have accompanying student exercises. 

Process of Legal Research
    Updating
Sources of Law
      Secondary Sources
Legal Citation
      Legislative History
Statute Finding
      Administrative Law
Case Finding
 


PowerPoint Presentations
Research (General)
 
            Research and the Internet (Purdue)
            Ignore the log in screen – just hit ‘cancel.’ This is a large file and may take
            several minutes to load.
 
Research Process (West)
  Access with a valid Westlaw ID.
            Process of Legal Reseach (Entire Presentation - 29MB) 
                    Introduction
                    From Facts to Issue (10MB)
                    Controlling Statute (10MB)
                    Expanding Research (9B)
                    Identifying Cases to Cite
                    Ensuring Currency and Validity
                    Conclusion
 
Secondary Sources (Westlaw)
            Introduction
                    American Law Reports
                    Legal Encyclopedias
                    Restatements of the Law
                    Legal Periodicals and Indexes
                    Texts
                    Law Dictionaries
                    Uniform Model Laws
                    Headnotes, Digests, Annotations

Case Research (West)
            The National Reporter System (Entire Presentation)
                    Introduction
                    The National Reporter System
                    Case Enhancements
                    The Topic and Key Number System
                    The Topic and Key Number Digests
                    Topic and Key Number Research
                    Custom Digests on Westlaw
                       
Statutory Research (West)
            Statutory Research (Entire Presentation)
                    Introduction
                    The Legislative  Process
                    Anatomy of a Statute
                    Statutory Research on Westlaw
                    Updating Statutory Research: KeyCite
                    Expanding Research:  Legislative History, Case Law and Secondary Sources
                       
Administrative Law Research (West)
            Administrative Law Research - Entire Presentation (22MB)
                    Introduction:  The Role of Agencies
                    Federal Register (10MB)
                    Code of Federal Regulations (10MB)
                    Federal Administrative Decisions
                
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