With a proven-effective process approach that has made this book a continual best seller, The Process of Legal Research, Seventh Edition, offers comprehensive coverage in a format that is pedagogically rich, meaningfully organized, and surprisingly concise.
Written and organized to explain and show the process of Legal Research, The Process of Legal Research, Seventh Edition, includes: a thorough introduction to the process of Legal Research extensive illustrations and examples one continuous in-text example that illustrates how to research a complex problem a focus on best-research practices how to choose the most appropriate source and media for various types of inquiries integrated coverage of electronic research extensive, well-researched problem sets on a CD included with the book With updated sources throughout, the Seventh Edition features: expanded coverage of non-Lexis/Westlaw on-line sources chapter-by-chapter templates for each type of research an updated and streamlined continuous research problem, with some explanatory material moved to sidebars enhanced discussion of the links between legal research and legal analysis a new author website that offers research tutorials This long-time leader in the field shows no signs of slowing down. Examine your complimentary copy to find out why The Process of Legal Research, now in its Seventh Edition, leads the pack.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Good Book:
The CD is the best part about this book. It is well written. I use it as a textbook for school and I have no complaints so far.
3 stars from a fence-sitter:
One can obtain copies of previous editions for as little as 1 USD
(enter the ISBN of the sixth edition 073553666X and view listings
for the approximately five versions/incarnations; click on Used).
Unless you 'must' have the most recent edition (the 6th), go USED The Process of Legal Research, Sixth Edition
by Christina L. Kunz, Deborah A. Schmedemann, Matthew P. Downs, Ann Bateson Published: 6/30/2004
ISBN: 073553666X
Format: Paperback Description The... more info
A good text-book with which to teach:
I teach a legal research and writing course with this textbook at UCLA and have found it very helpful. The book is well organized, has good homework problems, reasonably clear writing and fine illustrations. My students find it very helpful in their studies. Its only two flaws are that it does not use California law in its problems and has only one problem at its end to test all of the student's research skills. In a perfect world, two comprehensive research problems would be included to ensure that... more info
Great book for basic legal research:
This book explains to the first year law student how to go about legal research in the library and on the internet. It has practice exercises in the back of the book to facilitate the learning process. It is a quick read on all the main sources of legal research and general legal writing. It breaks down the elements of research into small, easy to manage parts that don't make you feel totally overwhelmed during your first research paper. I think it is a great tool for the first year law student.
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