Aimed at librarians and library science students, this book covers such topics as the origins of legal publishing; the U.S. system of law and government; issues related to the U.S. Constitution and Treaties; activities of the legislative and executive branches; and an examination of the legal issues faced by librarians, publishers and book distributors.
"Characteristics of American Law and Legal Resources; Court Reports; Shepard's Citations; Online Updating Tools; West Key-Number Digests; ALR Annotations; Federal Statutory Research; State Statutory Research; Local Law Sources; Constitutional Law;...
Traces how the author, a Navy veteran, committed five bank robberies and spent years in prison before he rallied with the support of family and friends and learned savvy legal skills, allowing him to build a promising life as a free man.
Recognising these two obvious facts, this book hasbeen designed to be a flexible tool, of use to researchers of variouslevels of sophistication. If you are new to legal research, start with Chapter 2 and workyour way through the book.
Brown herself moved from a high-powered partnership position into an alternate career and draws from this experience, as well of dozens of former practicing attorneys, in the book.
Legal Research Exercises: To Accompany Cohen, Berring and Olson's How to Find the Law (9th Ed.) and Robert C. Berring's...
Legal Research Exercises
Learning Legal Skills and Reasoning Discusses how to find and understand sources of both domestic and European Union Law Develops effective disciplined study techniques, including referencing, general reading, writing and oral skills and ...
Media Law (Robertson, Geoffrey and Nicol, Andrew), 169 Nicoll, William. Understanding the European Union, 200 Nicholls, Paul. Employment Tribunals: Presenting a Winning Case (Arora, Vinita and Nicholls, Paul), ...
Instructors Manual for Legal Research Exercises Following the Bluebook: a Uniform System of Citation: To Accompany Berring & Edinger's Finding...
This second edition, Code Version 2.0, updates the work and was prepared in part through a wiki, a web site allowing readers to edit the text, making this the first reader-edited revision of a popular book.