Course Guides - Advanced Legal Research

Course Description

This course would serve to refresh the basic skills that students learned in the first year of law school, while at the same time expose them to advanced computer assisted research skills.  These advanced computer skills would be immensely beneficial to upper level students, many of whom are entering the job market for the first time or are participating in summer associate programs.   Students will be taught advanced legal research skills for paper legal information resources and Lexis, Westlaw, and the Internet.  Students will extensively use general and legal search engines and meta-search engines to complete their class assignments that include compiling biblio / webliographies / pathfinders in chosen areas. (Non-traditional credit - 1 credit)  Paper

Faculty Who Teach This Course

• Frank Y. Liu (Professor of Law & Director of the Center for Legal Information)

Subject Covered Presently in Collection by:

	Print Collection
	K85-K89	Legal Research – General Law
	KF240-KF247	Legal Research – U.S. Law
	Legal Research Databases
	Legal Periodicals palawlibrary.com bePress HeinOnline CCH Internet Network LoisLaw BNA Online Indexmaster Court View Network (CVN) RIA Checkpoint Legal Scholarship Network Making of Modern Law LLMC Digital LegalTrac SOLCAT Proquest Congressional Westlaw and Lexis Findlaw Religion Case Reporter Online GPO Access Heiros Gamos Capitol Toolbox CALI Law Cornell Thomas Firstgov

DCLI Webpage Links

• Primary Legal Research: Case Law, Statutory Law, Administrative Law, Constitutions (contains quick links to our statutes, our administrative codes, federal and state case law and our constitutions)
• Legal Research Guides:  Legal Research and Writing

Under Subject Area:

• Legal Research & Writing

Course Listed Under the following Law School Areas of Interest:

• Litigation
• Courses Relevant to All Areas of Interest