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