Legal Research (eBook)

How to Find & Understand the Law

Stephen Elias, Editors of Nolo (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018 | 18., Eighteenth Edition
376 Seiten
Nolo (Verlag)
978-1-4133-2565-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Whether you’re in the courtroom or the classroom, Nolo’s Legal Research is your step-by-step guide to finding the right law or case and putting it to use. Get tips on the latest research methods and get the information you need, in the library or online.

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Legal Research: Take the law into your own handsDo you have legal questions at home, at work, or as part of law-related course work? Legal Research provides everything you need, laying out easy-to-follow research methods that will help you find the right answers. Find out how to: locate and understand statutes, regulations, and cases make sure your research is 100% up to date organize your research results into a memorandum of law for use at school, at work, or in court. Completely updated for the 17th edition, Legal Research shows how to use the Web to find statutes, cases, background information, and answers to specific legal questions. Even more important, you'll be guided to the most reliable and user-friendly sites, so you won't drown in an information flood. Lots of examples and easy-to-understand instructions teach you how to use all the basic legal research tools, including: Internet search engines reliable free legal websites legal encyclopedias, periodicals, and treatises annotated legal codes and statutes published reports of state and federal court cases case digests and Shepard's Citations the best legal blogs

Inhalt

Your Legal Research Companion

1. Understanding the Basics of the Law

2. Finding Legal Resources

3. Identifying Your Legal Issue

4. Finding and Using Secondary Sources

5. Finding and Using Constitutions, Statutes, Regulations, and Ordinances

6. Finding Cases

7. Using Case Law

8. Validating Your Research

9. Organizing and Putting Your Legal Research to Use

10. Research Hypothetical and Memorandum

Glossary

Appendix

Topic-Specific Research Sites

Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.8.2018
• Zusatzinfo: charts, tables, graphs, forms
• Verlagsort: Berkeley
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Berufs-/Gebührenrecht
• ISBN-10: 1-4133-2565-3 / 1413325653
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4133-2565-2 / 9781413325652