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Legal Research

Bridge-the-Gap Research Sessions

On Tuesday, May 16 (slides)

Wednesday, May 17 (slides ) &

Thursday, May 18, 2023 (slides )

the Duquesne Kline Law Librarians will teach three research sessions in the Multicultural Room 118.

If you are a summer associate or a faculty RA, these sessions are intended for you. Join us!

On Tuesday, we focus on Planning Your Research.

On Wednesday, we focus on Using Secondary Sources to Implement Your Research.

On Thursday, we focus on Putting It All Together (planning, implementing and updating your research).

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If you intend to attend on zoom, or if you have questions, please email us at dcli@duq.edu.

Categories
Legal Research

Welcome to Legal Research 101

Legal research is about finding answers in the most efficient way, given the financial resources available to the researcher. Legal research incorporates doctrinal research. Thus, the more you know about one area of law, the better your research. But, as in every epistemic area (area of human knowledge), there are best practices of legal research, and here I will post short videos about what I consider to be best legal research practices. While I will aim to be available weekly for such in-person sessions, here are the recorded Research Tips@DCLI.

  1. Roadmap to Research (I) – The Explanatory Role of Secondary Sources in Common Law Research
  2. Roadmap to Research (II) – The Doctrinal Role of Treatises and Restatements in Common Law Research
  3. Roadmap to Research (III) – The Role of Secondary Sources to Locate Relevant Cases (Common law research)
  4. Roadmap to Research (IV) – Reading Relevant Cases Located through Secondary Sources. Basics of Lexis Advance and Westlaw Edge
  5. Roadmap to Research (V) – Case Law Research – Controlled Searches on Lexis Advance and Westlaw Edge
  6. Roadmap to Research (VI) – Statutory Research – Controlled Searches on Lexis Advance and Westlaw Edge
  7. More to come