Legal Research Illustrated: An Abridgment of Fundamentals of Legal Research, Ninth Edition

ISBN-10: 1599413353
ISBN-13: 9781599413358
Series: Legal Research Illustrated
Category: LEGAL RESEARCH--UNITED STATES.
Language: English
Published: 2009
Authors: Roy M. Mersky, Donald J. Dunn, Steven M. Barkan

Description

Legal Research Illustrated offers an authoritative introduction to legal research, including the most recent methods and resources. This teaching tool provides an in-depth discussion of the legal research process, integrating electronic sources and other research aids. The Ninth Edition includes a new chapter on legal writing. Illustrations and charts help present and clarify fundamentals. Highlights of this edition include updated chapters covering the newest sources, with an emphasis on the Internet; major revisions of the chapters on federal legislation, federal legislative histories, administrative law, constitutional law, secondary sources, citators, electronic legal research, international and human rights law; and a revised glossary of legal research terms and updated appendixes.