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- Best Guide to Canadian Legal Research - Guide to Canadian legal research, focusing on strategy and effective use of primary and secondary sources in both print and electronic formats. Published by Catherine Best.
legalresearch.org
- Duke University School of Law : Library : Research Guides - Concise guides to research in various substantive areas in both the United States and Europe. These include U.S. federal tax, European Union, English Law, treaty research and North Carolina legal research.
www.law.duke.edu/lib/libser/publicat/researchGuides
- How to Shepardize - How to use Shepards citators to determine precedential value of a case, statute, or other legal authority before relying on it in an argument.
helpcite.shepards.com/howtoshep/howto1.htm
- Legal Research Guide - A basic introduction to sources of law, how to find them, how to make sure that they are current, and correct citation. Authored by Santa Barbara College of Law Professor Craig Smith.
www.west.net/~smith/research.htm
- LLRX.com Research Guide - Andrew Zimmerman's guide to legal research. It is a wonderful site full of helpful information on finding the law. It can be useful to the layperson or even the experienced legal researcher.
www.llrx.com/guide
- The Virtual Chase - Guides lawyers and other legal professionals who want to conduct research on the Internet. Offers numerous articles on research strategies, research guides, and teaching tools.
www.virtualchase.com
- Thomas - Legislative Information on the Internet - An official source of United States Federal Legislative information.
thomas.loc.gov
- UCLA Law Library Research Guides - Extremely useful guides to various types of legal research produced by the UCLA Law Library in Portable Document Format. Research topics include California and Federal legislative history, basic case and statutory research. Although written with the UCLA Law Library user in mind (such as call numbers and locations in-house), it can be a great starting point for someone not necessarily there.
www.law.ucla.edu/library/researchTools/guides/Index.htm
- USC Law Library Research Guide - An exhaustive guide to databases, secondary sources, and Internet sites that discuss a wide variety of substantive areas of the law. Also includes brief sections on legal research methodology and Internet research.
hal-law.usc.edu/library/pages/research_guide.html
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