Course Description
Introduction to sources and strategies for basic legal research, including finding cases, statutes, regulations, and secondary authorities.
Additional Requirements for Graduate Students:
Graduate law students will not be doing any extra work beyond
that required of the Juris Doctor students. J.D. students are
post-baccalaureate students and the workload expected of them is
the same workload expected of post-baccalaureate graduate
students. Law students are professional students, not
undergraduate students. Graduate law students are primarily
international lawyers seeking expertise in the American legal
system. This expertise is gained through exposure to Juris
Doctor courses.
Athena Title
Legal Research I
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
All students will be able to: 1. Demonstrate an understanding of legal research techniques 2. Find, retrieve, and update appropriate legal authority 3. Effectively use Westlaw, Bloomberg Law, and Lexis/Nexis to perform legal research 4. Construct a research plan in a concise written summary
Topical Outline
1. Making a legal research plan 2. Developing effective search strategies for Westlaw, Lexis- Nexis, and Bloomberg Law 3. Identifying appropriate secondary sources 4. Finding relevant cases 5. Locating relevant statutes 6. Updating search results using citators
Syllabus
Public CV