This lesson will introduce you to Tennessee primary sources. As an overview of these materials this lesson will not describe any one resource in great depth. CALI lessons describing statutes, cases, digests, etc. are a great resource for learning more about individual authorities. This lesson is intended primarily for first year law students.
Read moreThis lesson will cover how to conduct legal research about the constitutions of individual states, online and in print.
Read moreThis lesson will introduce you to how codes are created, how they're organized, how they're published, and what it all means for your legal research. It is intended for first-year law and graduate students, or anyone who needs a refresher on the basics of this topic. This lesson assumes that you are familiar with how statutes are passed and how they're first published, either from your own knowledge or from the CALI Lesson "Introduction to State and Federal Statutes." For one of the questions in this lesson, you should have your Bluebook or ALWD Citation Manual handy.
Read moreThis lesson is intended as an introduction to the use of the Restatements of the Law. In this lesson students will learn what the Restatements of the Law are and why one would use them for legal research, their major features, how to search them, and how to use them to find cases.
Read moreThis lesson introduces students to subject specific treatises, a type of secondary resource particularly helpful when conducting legal research in an unfamiliar area of law.
Read moreThis lesson will introduce you to methods of finding and updating federal executive orders. It assumes no prior knowledge of the subject, and is therefore appropriate for any student or legal professional who needs to learn how to research federal executive orders. Knowledge of the C.F.R. and the Federal Register is helpful for understanding this lesson.
Read moreThis lesson will teach you how to read information from legislative history, the next step after gathering the materials as described in the CALI Lesson Federal Legislative History Research - Compiled Legislative History, which you should complete first. Additionally, this lesson will help you find just the intent behind specific language of a law or statute.
Read moreThis lesson demonstrates the ways in which internet searching can provide access to internal administrative agency materials.
Read moreThis exercise is to help users learn the rules of proper citation form for briefs and legal memoranda. It does not deal with proper citation form for law review footnotes. It is divided into three sections: Section A deals with cases, B with statutory materials and C with secondary authorities.
Read moreThis lesson will assist the student both in reviewing effective legal research techniques and learning something about Social Security disability, an area of law not often studied in law school. To accomplish this the student will examine a real life fact scenario in order to navigate the primary and secondary resources in this area.
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