(Ebook) Legal Research How to Find and Understand the Law 12th Edition by Stephen Elias, Susan Levinkind ISBN 9781413300581 1413300588

(Ebook) Legal Research How to Find and Understand the Law 12th Edition by Stephen Elias, Susan Levinkind ISBN 9781413300581 1413300588

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ISBN 10: 1413300588
ISBN 13: 9781413300581
Author: Stephen Elias, Susan Levinkind

(Ebook) Legal Research How to Find and Understand the Law 12th Edition Table of contents:

1. How to Use This Book

2. An Overview of Legal Research

   • How to Find (and Feel at Home in) a Law

   • Legal Research on the Internet

   • A Basic Approach to Legal Research

   • Six Time-Saving Research Tips

   • Understand the Legal Uncertainty Principle

   • Know When You’re...

3. An Overview of the Law

   • Foundations of American Law

   • The Development of American Common Law

   • About Going to Court

4. Putting Your Questions Into Legal Categories

   • The Land of the Law

   • Find the Broad Legal Category for Your Problem

   • Identify Specific Terms for Your Problem

5. Getting Some Background Information

   • How Background Resources Can Help

   • Law Textbooks

   • Legal Encyclopedias

   • Form Books

   • Practice Manuals

   • Law Reviews and Other Legal Periodicals

   • Specialized Loose-Leaf Materials

   • Treatises and Monographs

   • Background Resources on the Internet

6. Constitutions, Statutes, Regulations and Ordinances

   • Constitutional Research

   • How to Find Statutes in the United States

   • How to Find a Recent or Pending Federal Statute

   • Finding Pending and Recent Federal Legislation on the Internet

   • Finding Out-of-Date Federal Statutes in the Law Library

   • Finding State Statutes in the Law Library and on the Internet

   • Finding Recently Enacted or Pending State Statutes

   • How to Read Statutes

   • The Importance of Cases That Interpret Statutes

   • Using Words and Phrases to Interpret Statutes

   • Using Attorney General Opinions to Interpret Statutes

   • Using Legislative History to Interpret Statutes

   • Using Uniform Law Histories to Interpret Statutes

   • Regulations

   • Procedural Statutes and Rules

7. Understanding Case Law

   • What Is a Case?

   • How Cases Affect Later Disputes

8. How Cases Are Published

   • Federal Cases

   • Keeping Case Reporters Up-to-Date

   • The Newest Cases

   • Publishing Cases on the Internet

9. Finding Cases

   • Interpreting Case Citations

   • How to Find Cases in the Law Library

   • Finding State Case Law on the Internet

   • Using VersusLaw to Research Federal and State Case Law

   • The Next Step

10. Shepard’s, Digests and the Internet: Expand and Update Your Research

    • Shepard’s Citations for Cases

    • The West Digest System

    • Expanding and Updating on the Internet

11. How to Write a Legal Memorandum

    • How to Prepare a Legal Memorandum

    • Sample Legal Memorandum

12. The Legal Research Method: Examples

    • Classify the Problem

    • Use the Legal Index

    • Get an Overview of Your Research Topic

    • Use Shepard’s Citations for Cases

    • Check the Pocket Parts

    • Use Shepard’s and Digests to Find On-Point Cases

    • Summary

    • Constitutional

13. Legal Research Online

    • What’s Out There—And What Isn’t

    • How Legal Materials Are Organized on the Internet

    • Searching by Subject Matter Categories on the Internet

    • Key Word Searching on the Internet

    • An Online Search Strategy

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