Texas Legal Research: Secondary Resources

This lesson covers secondary resources useful for Texas-specific research including the state legal encyclopedia, state treatises, state practice materials, state form books, and state legal periodicals. Popular resources such as Texas Jurisprudence III and Dorsaneo's will be covered. This lesson also contains information on searching Texas library catalogs and research guides.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of the lesson, the student will be able to:

1. List four secondary resources.
2. Explain when to use one secondary resource versus another.
3. Create a legal research strategy using secondary resources.