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Advanced Legal Research Robert Harrison, Blair Kauffman, Lisa Spar
Spring 1998

Legal Research: Methods and Sources (Spring 1998)

Research Problem #5 -- Secondary Sources

(Due April 15)

1. Prepare a bibliography of at least five secondary sources (preferably including one major periodical article, one Restatement section, one legal newsletter, and two treatises, hornbooks or monographs) dealing with the problem you were assigned at the beginning of the semester. If there are no secondary sources directly on point, find some that are inthe general area of law of your problem. Give full citations to each of your references, together with a one-sentence statement of how the source is relevant to your problem anda one-sentence statement of how you found that source. (Be sure to indicate the problem you're using at the top of your paper.)

2. Shepardize the periodical article listed in Question 1 and briefly describe what you find.

3. Using LEXIS and WESTLAW, find another periodical article on your topic. Give its citation and describe how you found it.

4. Using the Encyclopedia of Legal Information Services or the Encyclopedia of Associations (ask at Reference Desk), or any other source, give the name of at least one organization, agency or advocacy group that may provide useful information on your problem.

5. Try to locate by computer a relevant dissertation from Dissertation Abstracts. If not clearly relevant, use the closest you could find and attach a printout to your answer.


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