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| Location of Tables | |
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| Advanced Legal Research: Getting Started | |
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| What This Book Is About | |
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| What This Book Is Not About | |
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| Why You Must Make a Research Plan | |
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| Documenting What You Find: Citations | |
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| Documenting What You Find: Formats | |
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| What Source to Use? | |
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| Following Tangents: How Much Is Too Much? | |
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| How to Make a Research Plan | |
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| Best Uses of Full Text Searching | |
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| Best Uses of Field-Limited Searching | |
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| Best Uses of Searching Subject Indexed/Edited Data | |
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| What You Are Going to Look For | |
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| Statutes | |
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| Statutes First | |
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| Codes | |
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| Working With a Statutory Code Index | |
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| Selected Sources for the United States Code | |
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| Terms to Look Up in Code Indexes | |
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| Distinctions Between Code Indexes | |
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| Using a Code Index Online | |
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| Finding the Statute by Finding a Case | |
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| Working With the Structure of the Code | |
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| Code Currency | |
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| Choosing a Format in Which to Do Your Code Research | |
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| Choosing a Code Source | |
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| Codes of the Past | |
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| Renumbered Codes | |
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| Session Laws | |
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| Using Session Laws to Update the Code | |
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| Sources for United States Session Laws | |
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| Using Session Laws to Find New Laws Without Reference to Earlier Code Sections | |
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| Sources for New Federal Session Laws | |
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| Citations to Session Laws | |
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| Choosing a Source for Session Laws | |
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| Finding Laws That Will Never Make It Into the Code | |
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| Updating Uncodified Session Laws | |
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| Statutes More Conveniently Discussed in Their Original Session Law Form | |
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| Session Law Nomenclature vs. Code Nomenclature | |
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| Session Laws as Authentication of Code Language | |
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| Getting From a Code Section to Its Source in the Session Laws | |
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| Monster Session Laws: Omnibus Statutes | |
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| Reading the Session Law as an Aid to Understanding the Code | |
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| Finding Statutes by "Name" | |
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| Getting From a Session Law to the Corresponding Code Sections | |
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| Finding Bills | |
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| Finding a Bill by Subject | |
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| Online Sources of Congressional Bills | |
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| Finding a Bill by Bill Number, by Date, or by Sponsor | |
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| Cases Interpreting Statutes | |
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| Finding Cases in an Annotated Code | |
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| Currency of the Case Annotations | |
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| Revision of the Annotations | |
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| Cases Included in the Annotations | |
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| Case Annotations in Specialized Sources | |
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| Using a Citator to Find Cases Interpreting a Statute | |
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| Examples of Specialized Sources of Statute Annotations and How They Work | |
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| Using Full Text Searching to Find Cases Interpreting a Statute | |
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| Special Issues in State Statutory Research | |
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| Some Sources of Comparative State Statutes | |
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| Legislative History | |
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| Legislative History: When and Why? | |
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| Compiled Legislative Histories | |
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| Types of Legislative History Documents | |
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| Selected Sources of Compiled Federal Legislative Histories | |
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| Committee Reports | |
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| Sources for Committee Reports | |
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| Identifying Committee Reports About a Known Statute or Bill | |
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| Accessing Congressional Committee Reports | |
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| Finding Committee Reports by Subject | |
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| Identifying Congressional Committee Hearings | |
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| Accessing Congressional Committee Hearings | |
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| Sources of Committee Hearings | |
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| Unpublished Hearings | |
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| Identifying and Locating Committee Prints and House and Senate Documents | |
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| Identifying and Locating Bills as a Source of Legislative History | |
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| The Congressional Record | |
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| Sources of the Congressional Record | |
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| Congressional Record Pagination | |
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| Congressional Record Indexing | |
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| State Legislative History | |
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| Introducing Secondary Sources: Law Review Articles | |
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| Law Reviews as a Tool for the Legal Researcher | |
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| Finding Law Review Articles | |
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| Selected Legal Periodical Indexes | |
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| Looking for Articles by Subject | |
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| Looking for Articles by Case Name or Citation | |
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| Looking for Articles About a Statute | |
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| Looking for an Article by a Particular Author | |
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| Evaluating the Usefulness of Law Review Articles | |
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| Examples of Sources for Working Papers in Law | |
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| Using the Footnotes in Law Review Articles | |
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| Selected Dictionaries of Legal Abbreviations | |
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| Cases | |
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| The Core of Our Enterprise | |
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| Finding All the Right Cases | |
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| Full Text Searching of Case Law Databases | |
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| Using Subject Indexes to Case Law: Digests and the Key Number System on Westlaw | |
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| Principal Components of the American Digest System | |
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| Finding a Topic and Key Number | |
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| Changes to the Topics and Key Numbers | |
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| Working With Key Numbers | |
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| Getting the Most Recent Key Number Indexing | |
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| Other Subject-Based Searching for Cases | |
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| Finding Cases by Name | |
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| Some Examples of Non-West Subject Indexes to Cases | |
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| Finding Cases by Citation | |
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| Nominative and Other Unfamiliar Reporters | |
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| Docket Numbers | |
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| Other Citation Wrinkles | |
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| Using Indexed and Full Text Searching Together: The Heart of the Case Research Process | |
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| Researching the Authority for What Seems Like a Hoary or Even Self-Evident Well-Established Principle | |
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| Proving the Negative | |
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| When to Stop | |
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| Federal Case Law | |
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| Supreme Court Cases | |
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| Selected Sources of Scotus Opinions | |
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| The United States Courts of Appeals | |
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| Selected Sources for Scotus Records and Briefs | |
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| Selected Sources for Scotus Oral Arguments | |
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| Selected Sources for Federal Courts of Appeal Cases | |
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| Selected Sources of Court of Appeals Records and Briefs | |
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| United States District Courts | |
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| Selected Sources of Federal District Court Cases | |
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| State Case Law | |
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| Updating Case Law Research | |
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| Introducing Secondary Sources: Treatises and Other Overviews | |
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| Treatises | |
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| Sources for Lists of Prominent Treatises | |
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| Restatements of the Law | |
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| Encyclopedias | |
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| American Law Reports: The ALR | |
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| Introducing Secondary Sources: Form Books and Jury Instructions | |
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| Form Books | |
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| A Word of Caution About Forms | |
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| General Collections of Forms | |
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| Subject-Specific Collections of Forms | |
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| Jurisdiction-Specific Collections of Forms | |
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| Pattern Jury Instructions | |
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| Sources of Administrative Law | |
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| Introduction to Administrative Law Research | |
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| Sources of Administrative Law: The Federal Register | |
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| Where to Find the Federal Register | |
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| Rules and Regulations Section of the Federal Register | |
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| Proposed Regulations Section of the Federal Register | |
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| Notices Section of the Federal Register | |
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| Reader Aids Section of the Federal Register | |
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| How the Federal Register Is Actually Used in Legal Research | |
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| Sources of Administrative Law: The Code of Federal Regulations | |
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| CFR Basics | |
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| Where to Find the Code of Federal Regulations | |
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| Dates of Annual Revision of CFR Titles | |
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| Structure of the CFR | |
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| Titles of the CFR | |
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| Titles of USC and CFR Compared | |
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| Chapters of the CFR | |
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| Parts of the CFR | |
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| Sections of the CFR | |
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| How to Use the CFR | |
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| Updating a CFR Section | |
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| A Better Way: The List of Sections Affected | |
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| Electronic CFRs With Rolling Updates | |
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| Administrative Hearings and Other Quasi-Judicial Proceedings | |
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| State Administrative Law Research | |
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| Introducing Secondary Sources: Looseleaf Services | |
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| Introduction: What This Chapter Is About | |
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| What Are Looseleafs Used For? | |
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| The Different Kinds of Looseleafs | |
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| Using a Newsletter-Style Looseleaf | |
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| Using an Interfiled Looseleaf | |
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| What Is Not in Looseleafs? | |
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| Finding a Looseleaf on Your Topic | |
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| Online Versions of Looseleafs | |
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| Court Rules | |
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| What Are Court Rules and Why Do They Matter? | |
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| Federal Court Rules | |
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| Finding Annotated Federal Court Rules, General and Local | |
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| Secondary Sources and Federal Rules | |
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| Selected Sources of Annotated Federal Court Rules | |
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| Federal Court Rules Judicially Considered | |
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| Using Citators for Updating Federal Court Rules | |
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| State Court Rules | |
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| Annotated State Court Rules | |
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| Legal Ethics Research | |
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| Introduction to Legal Ethics Research | |
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| Model and Uniform Laws Generally | |
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| Sources of Authority-American Bar Association Ethical Codes and Rules | |
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| Sources of Authority-State Law | |
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| Sources of Authority-"Case Law" Publications | |
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| Sources of Authority-Secondary Sources | |
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| How Legal Ethics Research Really Works | |
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| Recommended Websites for Legal Ethics Information | |
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| Foreign Law Research | |
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| Introduction to Foreign Law | |
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| Major World Legal Systems | |
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| Guides to Legal Research in Foreign Jurisdictions | |
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| Methods of Foreign Law Research | |
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| Selected Online Foreign Law Research Guides | |
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| International Law | |
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| Sources of International Law | |
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| Treaty Research | |
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| Recommended Treaty Websites | |
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| Intergovernmental Organizations | |
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| The European Union | |
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| European Union-Secondary Sources | |
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| European Union-Statutes | |
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| European Union-Case Law | |
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| European Union-Summing Up | |
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| Municipal Law Research | |
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| Municipal Law: When, Why and How | |
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| Municipal Charters | |
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| Municipal "Session Laws" | |
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| Municipal Statutory Codes | |
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| Municipal Decisional Law | |
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| Doing Comparative Research on Municipal Law | |
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| Administrative Regulations and Decisions on the Municipal Level | |
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| Where the Law Is | |
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| General Principles | |
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| Look for Basic Structures | |
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| Estimate What Form Your Answer Will Come In | |
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| Your Strategy Will Depend Upon Your Starting Point. What Do You Know Now? | |
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| The Less You Know, The More Certainly You Need Secondary Sources | |
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| Secondary Leads to Primary, But There Are Other Ways Around the Circle | |
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| Official Publications Often Less Useful | |
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| Human Ordering vs. Machine Recall | |
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| It Is Very Difficult to Do Effective Statutory Research Online | |
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| Know Exactly What Legislative Histories Are, and What They Are For | |
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| Let Someone Else Do the Work for You | |
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| But Don't Be Afraid to Be the First, If Necessary! | |
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| Evaluating Sources | |
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| An Afterward: The World of Unpublished Information | |
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| Selected Directories of Helpful Phone Numbers | |
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| Appendix. Selected Legal Research Guides for Each of the Fifty States | |
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| Index | |