LEGS 102Legal Research

Catalog

PREREQUISITES: LEGS 101 Introduction to Legal Studies. CATALOG DESCRIPTION: Legal Research introduces the student to legal research resources in print and electronic format. These resources include constitutions, statutory codes and annotations, administrative codes and registers, cases reporters and digests, legal secondary sources, including legal encyclopedias, treatises, legal periodicals, practice manuals and form books. It also introduces students to the various finding tools for accessing information in these resources. Instruction is also delivered on proper legal citation form, citation services, and research strategy. Projects include a series of graded law library research assignments teaching the student how to use this variety of materials to research both primary and secondary legal authorities using methodologies for research in either print or online sources, and updating material to insure the most up-to-date research possible.