NEW: Law and Legal Research: A Basic Guide

 
NEW: Law and Legal Research: A Basic Guide

$60.00

Our guide provides a clear and compact explanation of the American legal system, legal research, and legal publications. Author: Elyse H. Fox, BA, JD, MSLS. Ms. Fox has worked as a law librarian for 40+ years. Previously she practiced law and taught legal research.

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1 copy: $60; 2 copies: $114; 3 copies: $162; 4 copies: $204; 5 copies: $240. 5 copies: $200. Books must be shipped to the same address. For higher quantity orders, please contact us.

Description

Our guide explains the legal system, legal research, and legal bibliography, with discussion of special topics in legal research.

Contents:

About the Author

Introduction

Chapters

  1. Law and authority
  2. Sources of law
  3. How is the law published?
  4. The process of legal research
  5. Law books, legal databases, and websites: print/online
  6. Validating and updating the law
  7. Special topics in law and legal research*
  8. Resources on law and legal research

*Special topics: Annotations; Law dictionaries, glossaries, thesauri; Government manuals; Looseleaf services; Legislative history and signing statements; Court rules; Uniform and model acts, regulations, charters; Restatements and Principles of the Law; 50-state surveys; Legal forms; Records and briefs; Advisory opinions; Jury instructions; Legal citation and legal citation manuals.

96 pages. ISBN 0-941991-88-1.

PRAISE: “Travel guides to the Country of Legal Research are numerous and, for devoted scholars, can run to multi-volume treatises on legislative history, legal publishing, and bibliographies spanning centuries of law. Sometimes, however, you just need a map and a good dictionary of useful words and phrases. Elyse Fox’s The Legal Research Dictionary: from Advance Sheets to Pocket Parts, 4th edition revised and her new Law and Legal Research: A Basic Guide might be just the “travel guides” novice legal researchers need. Law school students, public and law librarians, self-represented litigants, business and legal studies students, legal assistants, court clerks, journalists, and indeed anyone who reads the news and wants to know how and where to find official sources of the law would make good use of these legal research reference books.” Laura Orr, JD, MLS, Legal Research and Public Library Consultant.

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