American Law & Legal Research Guide for LLM's: Legal Research & Writing

• Legal Research 101: the Tools of the Trade
• Legal Research Methodology
• Where does Law come from?

In your Legal Writing class, you will be asked to draft various documents.  CALI provides some resources to help you with this.

• Drafting a Complaint
• Ethical Considerations in Legal Memo Writing
• Introduction to Search Logic and Strategies
• Issue Statements in Briefs and Memos
• Citation Form for Briefs and Memoranda
• Stating Facts: Objective and Persuasive Approaches
• Learning Legal Analysis through its Components: Issue, Rule, Application, Conclusion - IRAC

The Library has created Research Guides to help you find resources.

The Bluebook is a style manual that contains the national citation rules most often used by U.S. law students, faculty, and federal courts. Originally published in 1926, the current edition is the 19th, which is updated periodically to reflect new types of citations. The popularity ofThe Bluebook among law students and legal professionals has resulted in a new term: Bluebooking.

 Bluebooking is the process of editing legal texts to ensure that assertions are supported by citations that conform to the rules in The Bluebook.

Reference Librarians are available to help you with your research questions

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