Principles of Legal research

The second edition of Principles of Legal Research will be published in May and available for Fall 2015 class adoptions. Winner of the American Association of Law Libraries' Joseph L. Andrews Legal Literature Award in 2010, Principles of Legal Research provides encyclopedic yet concise coverage of research methods and resources using both free and commercial websites as well as printed publications. It has been thoroughly updated to provide coverage of WestlawNext, Lexis Advance, Bloomberg Law, and other new resources. An introductory survey of research strategies is followed by chapters on the sources of U.S. law created by each branch of government, discussion of major secondary sources, and an overview of international and comparative law. Sample illustrations are included, and an appendix lists more than 500 major treatises and looseleaf services by subject.*

Contents

• Introduction: Context and process

• Constitutional law

• The legislature (1) : statutes

• The legislature (2) : legislative information

• The executive branch

• The judiciary (1) : introduction

• The judiciary (2) : case law sources

• The judiciary (3) : case research

• The judiciary (4) : other court information

• Secondary sources (1) : encyclopedias, restatements, and texts

• Secondary sources (2) : periodicals

• Reference resources

• International law

• The law of other countries