Legal Research In A Nutshell

Author : Morris L. Cohen,Kent C. Olson
Publisher : West Academic Publishing
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015060627331

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Legal Research in a Nutshell by Morris L. Cohen,Kent C. Olson Pdf

Serving as both a text for beginning law students and a reference for experienced researchers, Legal Research in a Nutshell provides an overview of basic research methods. The expert authors discuss case law, statutes, secondary sources, and other research tools; they also analyze resources in more specialized areas, such as legislative history and administrative law. Completely updated with dozens of new Web addresses and 20 percent more illustrations of print and electronic sources, this comprehensive guide explains the investigative process using online databases, CD-ROM, and Internet resources, including free and commercial internet sites. Discussion also includes international and comparative law materials, as well as business and interdisciplinary research.

Author : Morris L. Cohen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015051788035

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Legal Research in a Nutshell by Morris L. Cohen Pdf

Describes primary sources and finding tools and the purpose they serve.

Author : Thomas R. Haggard
Publisher : West Academic Publishing
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Bill drafting
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063691575

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Legal Drafting in a Nutshell by Thomas R. Haggard Pdf

Haggard's Legal Drafting in a Nutshell provides guidelines for producing documents that serve the client's needs, solve existing problems, and prevent future problems. Authoritative coverage overviews the general drafting process and offers tips on getting started. Provides guidelines for drafting within the law and choosing the proper concept. Also identifies ambiguities, definitions, and drafting ethics.

Author : Marci Hoffman,Robert C. Berring
Publisher : West Academic Publishing
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Law
ISBN : 0314163247

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International Legal Research in a Nutshell by Marci Hoffman,Robert C. Berring Pdf

This Nutshell provides a basic introduction to international legal research for the non-specialist. It offers guidance through the unfamiliar pathways of research using international legal materials and demystifies the world of treaties. Since it's aimed at the non-specialist, it provides straight-forward background information on the United Nations and the European Union and includes guidance using the documents and legal materials of these institutions. There are extensive links to the rich world of Web resources, but it also describes paper research tools that remain important in this field. Finally, it sets out a road map for approaching an international legal research problem.

Author : Bernard W. Funston,Eugene Meehan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105062032839

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Canada's Constitutional Law in a Nutshell by Bernard W. Funston,Eugene Meehan Pdf

Author : Morris Cohen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1024264708

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Legal Research in a Nutshell by Morris Cohen Pdf

This comprehensive but succinct guide covers research procedures using major online services, free Internet resources, and library materials.

Author : Marci Hoffman,Mary Rumsey
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004204805

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International and Foreign Legal Research by Marci Hoffman,Mary Rumsey Pdf

International and Foreign Legal Research: A Coursebook, second edition by Hoffman and Rumsey, now in a second edition, is designed for classes in foreign and international legal research. Topics covered in the book range from treaty research to chapters on particular subjects of international law. Coverage also includes chapters on researching foreign and comparative law as well as major international organizations, including the UN and the EU.

Author : Jonathan Crowe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108498302

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Natural Law and the Nature of Law by Jonathan Crowe Pdf

Presents a systematic, contemporary defence of the natural law outlook in ethics, politics and jurisprudence.

Author : Kent C. Olson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 0314286640

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Principles of Legal Research by Kent C. Olson Pdf

Winner of the American Association of Law Libraries' Joseph L. Andrews Legal Literature Award in 2010, Principles of Legal Research provides encyclopedic yet concise coverage of research methods and resources using both free and commercial websites as well as printed publications. It has been thoroughly updated to provide coverage of WestlawNext, Lexis Advance, Bloomberg Law, and other new resources. An introductory survey of research strategies is followed by chapters on the sources of U.S. law created by each branch of government, discussion of major secondary sources, and an overview of international and comparative law. Sample illustrations are included, and an appendix lists more than 500 major treatises and looseleaf services by subject.

Author : Mark Osbeck
Publisher : West Academic Publishing
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1642427969

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Impeccable Research, a Concise Guide to Mastering Legal Research Skills by Mark Osbeck Pdf

Unlike conventional legal research books that limit their focus to teaching students how to find and use the various sources of law, this book stresses a systematic, practice-oriented approach to acquiring legal-research skills. It presents a simple yet highly effective research strategy that helps students efficiently solve the types of complex legal-research problems they can expect to encounter in the workplace. In addition, the book includes a section on the various primary and secondary sources of law, and how best to find and use them, as well as a section containing tips for summer interns and associates, and a Trouble-Shooting Guide to help students overcome the occasional obstacles that may crop up in their research projects. The book also includes a detailed Research Checklist for students to use before turning in their work. For these reasons, the book makes an ideal stand-alone text for the first-year legal-research class, as well as an excellent supplementary text for advanced legal-research classes.

Author : Michael D. Murray,Christy Hallam DeSanctis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Legal research
ISBN : 1609302427

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Legal Research Methods by Michael D. Murray,Christy Hallam DeSanctis Pdf

Softbound - New, softbound print book.

Author : Margaret Helen Kerr,JoAnn Kurtz,Laurence M. Olivo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Torts
ISBN : 0779889096

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Canadian Tort Law in a Nutshell by Margaret Helen Kerr,JoAnn Kurtz,Laurence M. Olivo Pdf

"Canadian Tort Law in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition, provides a succinct overview of Canadian tort law, incorporating the latest developments in an easy-to-understand format. It takes you step by step through the basic principles and issues in the law of torts in Canada"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Lynn Bahrych,Jeanne Merino,Beth McLellan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Law
ISBN : 1634602811

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Legal Writing and Analysis in a Nutshell by Lynn Bahrych,Jeanne Merino,Beth McLellan Pdf

Softbound - New, softbound print book.

Author : James G. Hodge (Jr.)
Publisher : Ingram
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1634592794

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Public Health Law in a Nutshell by James G. Hodge (Jr.) Pdf

Public Health Law in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition (2016) provides a fascinating, informative, and concise assessment of the critical role of law in American society to protect the community's health. Updated to reflect modern developments through 2015 in this ever-developing field, the Nutshell's 10 chapters lay out definitive legal issues underlying core public health powers to prevent and control communicable and chronic conditions like influenza, obesity, cancer, and heart disease. The text also explores legal routes to address sources of other public health threats, including tobacco and alcohol use, guns, vehicles, and defective products. Additional chapters focused on information surveillance, commercial speech regulation, the built environment, and emergency preparedness provide concise clear assessments of difficult law and policy trade-offs. Understanding the field of public health law encompasses its constitutional sources and limits as well as historic and modern attempts to regulate in the interests of the community's health and safety. This Nutshell specifically explains and addresses these issues while also providing a modern framework supporting the role of law in this pivotal area of society. It is a "must read" for any legal or public health practitioner in the field, law- and policy-makers working to protect the public's health, as well as students in schools of law, public health, or medicine assessing these issues in prior or current coursework.

Author : Michael K. Meek
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105134451991

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Australian Legal System by Michael K. Meek Pdf

Nutshells are ideal as an introduction to an area of law or as a brush up in preparation for exams. Concise; Clear explanations; Key cases; Legislative provisions.