Basic Legal Research: Tools and Strategies, Fifth Edition (Aspen Coursebook Series)
This text for law students breaks down print and electronic legal research processes into smaller st...
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This text for law students breaks down print and electronic legal research processes into smaller steps, offering stand-alone chapters and numerous summary charts, bullet points, screenshots, and sample pages. Early chapters cover generating search terms and evaluating search options. Later chapters are devoted to print and electronic research processes for different types of sources, such as secondary sources, cases, citators, statutes, federal legislative history, and federal administrative law. Sample pages in each chapter contain step-by-step illustrations of the research process described in the chapter. Especially helpful are examples of labeled documents found during the research process. Each chapter concludes with research checklists. This fifth edition offers updated Internet research resources and a new chapter on evaluating search options. There is a new overview of source- and content-driven search strategies, and new material on how to prioritize search terms depending on the nature of the research project. A companion website is available. Sloan teaches law at the University of Baltimore. Aspen Publishers is now Wolters Kluwer Law and Business Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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