Foundations Series
An Introduction to Legal Research
The hierarchy of authority and the discipline of citation.
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Bibliographic Record
Metadata.
- Series
- Foundations Series
- Volume
- Monograph No. 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publication Date
- MMXXV
- Document Type
- Educational Guide
- Status
- In Press
- Authors
- Faculty of the School of Legal Research
- ISBN
- 978-1-959000-06-2
- Permanent Identifier
- introduction-to-legal-research
- Subjects
- Legal research · Citation · Sources of law
- Keywords
- Legal research, Citation, Sources of law
§ II
Abstract
On the scope of the work.
A first guide to legal research for the entering student. The monograph introduces the hierarchy of authority, the discipline of citation, and the working habits of the serious researcher.
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Editorial Description
On the structure of the volume.
The guide opens with the question that organizes every research problem: what is the controlling source, and where will I find it?
Successive chapters introduce constitutions, statutes, regulations, court rules, and judicial opinions in their proper order, and explain how to read each as a primary source rather than as a paraphrase.
A closing chapter introduces citation — not as a stylistic ornament but as the apparatus by which a reader returns to the source.
The volume is intended for use in the first weeks of study at the Academy and as a permanent reference on the desk thereafter.
§ IV
Series
Foundations Series
Educational guides for students of the Academy. The hierarchy of authority, the reading of statutes, and the architecture of citation.
Foundations volumes are written for the entering student. They presume no prior training and end where the Schools begin.
§ V
Related Schools
The faculty of the work.
§ VI
Related Library Divisions
The divisions of the archive consulted in the preparation of this work.
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Preferred Citation
On citing this work.
Faculty of the School of Legal Research, An Introduction to Legal Research, Real Law Society Foundations Series Monograph No. 1 (1st ed. MMXXV).
§ VIII
Editorial Notes
On revision and review.
Prior editions of this work, where any, are retained in the institutional archive of the Society. Citations in the present edition have been verified against the controlling source as of the date of publication.
The work was reviewed by faculty of the relevant School before issue and is subject to revision as the governing instruments change. The Press accepts no instruction from outside the institution.
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Related Publications
Other volumes in the catalogue.
Companion works from the same series, and other publications of the Press on related subjects.
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