USA Law

Tag: Legal Research Instruction

  • Federal Cases

    Federal Cases in the United States What is a case? Most legal disputes are settled out of court. Settlement information is usually confidential and so not available. Some legal disputes go to trial. As a general rule law libraries do not carry trial transcripts. A few legal disputes are […]

  • Legal Research Information

    Legal Research Information in the United States Electronic Legal Research This section provides a brief overview of legal resources in electronic format. Electronic legal resources play an increasingly important role in legal research. What is meant by electronic legal resources are those […]

  • Oyez Project

    The Oyez Project in the United States Introduction: OYEZ – Listen to U.S. Supreme Court Arguments The Project started in 1996 by Jerry Goldman (from the Northwestern University) and the Northwestern University. It finished in 2001. OYEZ contained over 550 briefs of the Supreme Court’s […]

  • Indexes of the Encyclopedias of Law

    Indexes of the Encyclopedias of Law in the United States A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T| U | V | W |…

  • Legal Research Guides

    Legal Research Guides in the United States After the Cohen and Berring’s How to Find the Law, the standard print legal research guides are Kent Olson’s Principles of Legal Research (successor to How to Find the Law) and Barkan, Mersky and Dunn’s Fundamentals of Legal Research (formerly by […]

  • Case Citation

    Case Citation in the United States A legal citation is a reference to a legal authority where particular information, such as a case or statute, can be located. Legal citations are often confusing to the uninitiated because they differ from references used in other types of legal research. […]