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  1. Case Law

    Search for case summaries or by jurisdiction. FindLaw provides a database of case law from the U.S. Supreme Court and U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal, as well as several state supreme courts. It includes U.S. Supreme Court Opinions, U.S. Federal Appellate Court Opinions and U.S. State Supreme, Appellate and Trial Court Opinions.

  2. Home

    This guide contains selected, free, online United States federal and state legal research materials. Many lawyers have access to paid databases. Yet, combining paid and free resources, can help them to avoid potentially expensive searches. According to a 2020 Legal Technology Survey Report, nearly 60% of lawyers "say they regularly use free ...

  3. Legal Research Strategy

    This guide will walk a beginning researcher though the legal research process step-by-step. ... Researchers can keep paper logs, folders on Westlaw or Lexis, or online citation management platforms. Running Time: 3 minutes, 56 seconds. ... Headnotes show the key legal points in a case. Legal databases use these headnotes to guide researchers to ...

  4. Research Guides: How To Find Free Case Law Online: Google Scholar

    Google Scholar. To get started, click on the link above, select the "case law" radio button, and choose your search terms. You may click on the menu button at the top left-hand side of the screen (that resembles three stacked horizontal lines) to pull up an advanced search feature that will let you search for a phrase, exclude results with ...

  5. Caselaw Access Project

    The Caselaw Access Project (CAP), maintained by the Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab, includes "all official, book-published United States case law — every volume designated as an official report of decisions by a court within the United States...[including] all state courts, federal courts, and territorial courts for American Samoa, Dakota Territory, Guam, Native American Courts ...

  6. Legal research: 3-step how-to guide

    1. Identifying the legal issue is not so straightforward. Legal research involves interpreting many legal precedents and theories to justify your questions. Finding the right issue takes time and patience. 2. There's too much to research. Attorneys now face a great deal of case law and statutory material.

  7. Free Legal Research Sites

    Provides access to all U.S. official published case law from 1658 to June 2018. Search a comprehensive collection of United States case law; Free public access to published U.S. court opinions, statutes, and legal resources; Google Scholar (Legal Documents > Search all or selected Federal Courts) U.S. Supreme Court (1791-) U.S. Courts of ...

  8. The Journal of Legal Studies

    The Journal of Legal Studies publishes interdisciplinary academic research that tests or develops a particular legal or social scientific theory about law and legal institutions, including short submissions that critique or extend articles published in previous issues of the JLS. The JLS emphasizes social science approaches, especially those of ...

  9. Introduction

    Introduction. Every law student and practicing attorney must be able to find, read, analyze, and interpret case law. Under the common law principles of stare decisis, a court must follow the decisions in previous cases on the same legal topic. Therefore, finding cases is essential to finding out what the law is on a particular issue.

  10. Format

    Research papers are not as strictly structured as legal memos, briefs, and other documents that you've learned about in legal writing and drafting courses. For example, there is no prescribed content/format similar to to the Questions Presented, Brief Answers, etc. that you learned for a legal memo. Content

  11. Case-LEG :: SSRN

    Washington University Journal of Law and Policy, Vol. 69, Page. 127, 2022; Washington University in St. Louis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 22-08-02; Case Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2022-13 Number of pages: 20 Posted 17 Aug 2022

  12. How to Conduct Legal Research and Analysis

    Checking the status of case law is essential in legal research. Rely on Bloomberg Law's proprietary citator, BCITE. This time-saving tool lets you know if a case is still good law. Under each court opinion, simply look to the right rail. There, you will see a thumbnail icon for "BCITE Analysis.".

  13. Directed Research Projects

    Academic Legal Writing by Eugene Volokh. Call Number: KF250 .V65 2016 (On reserve - 2-hour loan) This book provides detailed instructions for every aspect of the law school writing, research, and publication process. Topics covered include law review articles and student notes, seminar term papers, how to shift from research to writing, cite ...

  14. Google Scholar

    Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. Search across a wide variety of disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions.

  15. [2401.15770] PILOT: Legal Case Outcome Prediction with Case Law

    Machine learning shows promise in predicting the outcome of legal cases, but most research has concentrated on civil law cases rather than case law systems. We identified two unique challenges in making legal case outcome predictions with case law. First, it is crucial to identify relevant precedent cases that serve as fundamental evidence for judges during decision-making. Second, it is ...

  16. Basic Legal Research Guide: Case Law

    About Cases. Cases are opinions written by judges that resolve disputed legal issues (as opposed to disputed factual issues ). Researching cases is important because of the doctrine of stare decisis or precedent. Under the principle of stare decisis, courts are bound to follow the rulings of law from previously decided cases in the same ...

  17. Legal Research: A Guide to Case Law

    The Law Library of Congress has also created freely-available legal research guides that can help researchers locate online case law sources. Subscription Databases for Case Law Research The subscription resources marked with a padlock are available to researchers on-site at the Library of Congress.

  18. (PDF) Tort Law: Cases, Perspectives, and Problems

    This new edition presents the important cases, statutes, empirical data, and competing tort theories in a problems-oriented format designed to help students acquire a sophisticated understanding ...

  19. How to Conduct a Case Law Research: Step-by-Step Guide

    Step 1: Understand the Facts of the Case. The first and foremost thing one should analyze is the facts of the case. It is crucial to gather the facts of the case, know the 'who', 'what', 'why, 'when', and 'how' of your case. Write down everything that has taken place in the case and everything that is going on presently.

  20. Legal Research Techniques for Finding Relevant Case Law

    By utilizing these different research methods, researchers can obtain a comprehensive understanding of the legal landscape and make well-informed arguments or decisions in case law research. There are several legal research methodologies available for researchers to pursue their research. 1. Descriptive & Analytical Research.

  21. PDF ORGANIZING A LEGAL DISCUSSION (IRAC, CRAC, ETC.)

    Order of Authorities: Constitution, statutes, regulations, Supreme Court cases, appellate court cases, trial court cases, and lastly, secondary sources. General specific Baseline rule exceptions Tip: For concise use of legal sources, use ellipses (Bluebook R. 5.3), and minimize use of block quotations

  22. CaseResearch.AI

    Using a simple chat-like interface, search for legal cases by name, number, legislation, parties, judge, etc. Simply describe your legal scenario, and CaseResearchAI will provide you with cases that have identical or similar circumstances. Get a quick overview of the key legal principles in each case thanks to headnotes.

  23. Permitting the Future by Jonathan H. Adler :: SSRN

    Case Research Paper Series in Legal Studies. Subscribe to this free journal for more curated articles on this topic FOLLOWERS. 6,558. PAPERS. 850. This Journal is curated by: Erik M. Jensen at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Jonathan H. Adler at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. Law, Institutions & Economic ...

  24. Case law Research Papers

    The contribution aims to identify the possible existing relations between the established case law and the latest regulatory amendments enacted in the field of the disabled worker‟s dismissal ... The research methodology used is qualitative and legal research methodologies. This paper finds that there are specific provisions under the TCPA ...

  25. Indian Journal of Law and Legal Research

    IJLLR - Indian Journal of Law and Legal Research is an online bi-monthly law journal. The Journal revolves around Socio-legal topics and is not restricted to any particular field or subject of law. The Journal promotes interdisciplinary research entailing detailed study of law with other disciplines in the contemporary era.

  26. EU-US data transfers: an enduring challenge for health research

    In this paper, we critically discuss the current rules and outline a possible way forward for transfers between public bodies. ... 20 and the case law of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) 14 ...

  27. Rape-Related Pregnancies in the 14 US States With Total Abortion Bans

    Many US women report experiencing sexual violence, and many seek abortion for rape-related pregnancies. 1 Following the US Supreme Court's 2022 Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization (Dobbs) decision overturning Roe v Wade, 14 states have outlawed abortion at any gestational duration. 2 Although 5 of these states allow exceptions for rape-related pregnancies, stringent gestational ...

  28. White paper on forensic child interviewing: Research-based

    This white paper consists of evidence-based recommendations for conducting forensic interviews with children. The recommendations are jointly drafted by researchers in child interviewing active within the European Association of Psychology and Law and are focused on cases in which children are interviewed in forensic settings, in particular within investigations of child sexual and/or physical ...

  29. Cisco Security Products and Solutions

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