課程目標

Course Description:

This course presents the student with two aspects for effective writing in the legal environment: citation skills and legal research skills. Students will learn and practice the basic skills necessary for identifying, locating, and using legal resources, including primary sources of statutory and case law; secondary authority; and research reference tools commonly used in the practice of law. Students will also be introduced to Bluebook citation methods.

Course Objectives:

At the conclusion of the course, you will be able to do the following:

1. Evaluate and understand legal authority structures, identify legal issues, assess source credibility and accuracy, and formulate a line of legal reasoning using those sources;

2. Use sound methods of legal research; and

3. Properly attribute sources in legal writing, and be able to cite to cases, statutes, regulations, and secondary sources in Bluebook format.

課程章節

課程書目

Harvard L. Review Association,The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation., 21st ed., Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard Law Review Association, 2020.

Beau Steenken & Tina Brooks, Sources of American Law: An Introduction to Legal Research., 2d ed., CALI eLangdell Press, 2016.

Jessica Kirschner,The Chicago Manual of Style., 17th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017.

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