Preface | xi | ||||
Legal Research and Writing Fundamentals | xi | ||||
Overview | xi | ||||
Outstanding Features | xiii | ||||
Competition | xiii | ||||
Content | xiv | ||||
Organization: ``What is Law?'' | xiv | ||||
``Developing the Issue''-The Concept of Analytical Thinking | xiv | ||||
The Substantive Answer to the Relevant Question | xv | ||||
Legal Research | xv | ||||
When to End Legal Research | xvi | ||||
Legal Writing | xvi | ||||
Ancillary Materials | xvi | ||||
CALR | xvi | ||||
Introduction | xvii | ||||
How Can I, a Non-Lawyer, Ever Begin to Understand the Law? | xvii | ||||
How will I understand the law when the words are confusing and have different meanings? | xviii | ||||
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PART TWO---LEGAL RESEARCH | 37 | (54) | |||
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Conclusion | 111 | (2) | |||
Appendix A | 113 | (18) | |||
Appendix B---Bluebook | 131 | (4) | |||
Appendix C | 135 | (2) | |||
Appendix D | 137 | (40) | |||
Appendix E---Defenses | 177 | (2) | |||
Appendix F---Writing the Inner-Office Memorandum of Law | 179 | (26) | |||
Appendix G---Analyzing what you Read (Analytical Reading) | 205 | (4) | |||
Appendix H | 209 |