This lesson provides an introduction to legal research in Massachusetts primary law sources. You will explore Massachusetts state statutes, constitution, cases, digest, and regulations in the context of a simple legal problem and answer follow-up questions.
Read moreThis lesson provides an overview of the primary resources involved in New Jersey legal research. These include statutes, administrative regulations, administrative registers, administrative decisions, court decisions, court rules, and the state constitution.
Read moreThis is Part II of a 2 part series on Intentional torts written for the undergraduate legal studies, business law, paralegal or pre-law student.
Read moreThis lesson is for the legal studies, prelaw, business law or paralegal major and discusses the types of damages in intentional torts.
Read moreThis lesson will prepare you to research primary law in Oklahoma.
Read moreThe purpose of this lesson is to provide an introduction to customary law systems and to offer suggestions for researching the laws of countries where customary law is still being practiced.
Read moreThis exercise begins with some general background questions to help students place administrative agencies within the greater Constitutional scheme. These questions also address the various powers agencies wield, and the ways they are created. Then the exercise examines sources that offer specific details on individual agencies; it goes on to briefly discuss procedural rules, policy statements, and the process of promulgating regulations.
Read moreRiparianism is the system of water law used in most eastern states in the United States to govern property rights in water. This lesson provides a review of the basic concepts of the doctrine of riparianism for students in Water Law or Property classes. It covers both common law riparianism and regulated riparianism.
Read moreThis lesson focuses on the presidential version of executive privilege. The lesson examines the justifications for the privilege, the requirements for its invocation, and judicial handling of that privilege.
Read moreThis lesson walks the user through significant portions of UETA, The Uniform Electronic Transactions Act.
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