Legal research : a guide for Hong Kong students.
By: Cottrell, Jill.
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BookPublisher: Hong Kong ; Hong Kong University Press : 1997Description: xii, 309 p. : 28 cm.ISBN: 9789622094307.Subject(s): Legal ResearchDDC classification: 340.07 COT 1997 Summary: This book is designed especially for use in Hong Kong to teach the basic skills of finding legal materials, both printed and computer-based ones. Its objective is to help students explore the range of materials which they will use in the course of their legal education, and thereafter in the practice of law.
Jill Cottrell studied law at the London School of Economics and Yale Law School. She has been Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Hong Kong since 1990, and has there been involved in the course on Legal Research and Writing, as well as substantive law courses. Her earlier career involved teaching law at two universities in Nigeria followed by fourteen years at the Law School of the University of Warwick in England.
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Contents
UNIT 1 WELCOME TO THE STUDY OF LAW
UNIT 2 THIS BOOK ITS ORGANIZATION PURPOSES AND ASSUMPTIONS
UNIT 3 LEGAL RESEARCH PRELIMINARY THOUGHTS
UNIT 4 CASES AN INTRODUCTION
UNIT 5 LAW REPORTS
UNIT 6 FINDING CASES
UNIT 7 FINDING CASES
UNIT 8 INTRODUCTION TO LEGISLATION
UNIT 9 READING A STATTE
UNIT 10 FINDING LEGISLATION AND RELATED MATTERS
UNIT 11 APPROACHING RESEARCH
UNIT 12 GENERAL WORKS OF REFERENCE
UNIT 13 JOURNALS
UNIT 14 GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS
UNIT 15 OTHER LAW-RELATED MATERIALS
UNIT 16 OTHER SYSTEMS
UNIT 17 NON-LAW MATERIALS
UNIT 18 ELECTRONIC SOURCES
UNIT 19 HOW TO CITE QUOTE AND PRESENT YOUR MATERIAL
This book is designed especially for use in Hong Kong to teach the basic skills of finding legal materials, both printed and computer-based ones. Its objective is to help students explore the range of materials which they will use in the course of their legal education, and thereafter in the practice of law.
Jill Cottrell studied law at the London School of Economics and Yale Law School. She has been Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Hong Kong since 1990, and has there been involved in the course on Legal Research and Writing, as well as substantive law courses. Her earlier career involved teaching law at two universities in Nigeria followed by fourteen years at the Law School of the University of Warwick in England.
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