Principles of Legal research
Kent Olson
Kent Olson
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.*
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