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With a proven-effective process approach that has made this book a continual best seller, The Process of Legal Research, Sixth Edition, leads students to a deep and meaningful understanding of the "what," "why," "and "how" of conducting legal research. the text is skillfully structured to engage student interest: a thorough introduction To The process of Legal Research extensive illustrations and examples of research problems the authors emphasize best research practice coverage of electronic research is integrated into the text extensive, well-researched problem sets appear on perforated pages for easy use Changes For The Sixth Edition facilitate teaching and learning: text streamlined to offer enhanced graphics and less dense text a list of "not-to-do's" is based on a survey of writing professors and librarians, As well as practicing lawyers coverage of ALWD Citation Manual as well as the Bluebook more emphasis on the Internet An author website to support classroom instruction using this title is available at http://www.aspenlawschool.com/kunz6

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• Exhibits and Illustrations(p. xix)
• Preface(p. xxv)
• Acknowledgments(p. xxvii)
• Unit I Overview(p. 1)
• Chapter 1 The Lay of the Land: the Importance of Legal Research, Legal Authorities, and Research Media(p. 3)
• A. The Canoga Case(p. 3)
• B. The Importance of Legal Research(p. 5)
• C. Legal Authorities(p. 6)
• 1. Primary Authority(p. 7)
• 2. Secondary Authority(p. 8)
• 3. Finding Tools(p. 19)
• D. Research Media(p. 19)
• E. The Approach of This Book(p. 22)
• Chapter 2 From Curiosity to Closure: Eight Cognitive Tasks(p. 24)
• Introduction(p. 24)
• A. Client-Centered Curiosity(p. 25)
• 1. Learn and React to Your Client's Situation(p. 26)
• 2. Develop Research Terms and Research Issues(p. 27)
• a. Understanding Legal Language(p. 27)
• b. Generating Research Terms(p. 29)
• c. Using Dictionaries and Thesauri(p. 32)
• d. Formulating Legal Issues(p. 33)
• B. Content and Context(p. 36)
• 3. List and Rank Potential Authorities(p. 36)
• 4. Assess Available Sources(p. 38)
• C. Consultation and Creativity(p. 39)
• 5. Use Your Terms and Issues to Locate Pertinent Passages(p. 40)
• 6. Study Pertinent Passages(p. 54)
• 7. Research Backwards and Forwards from Major Authorities(p. 55)
• D. Closure(p. 58)
• 8. Stop Researching(p. 58)
• Summary(p. 59)
• Unit II Secondary Authorities(p. 61)
• Preliminary Points(p. 62)
• Chapter 3 Encyclopedias(p. 63)
• A. What Is an Encyclopedia?(p. 63)
• B. Why Are Encyclopedias Useful?(p. 67)
• C. How Do You Research in Encyclopedias?(p. 67)
• Encyclopedias in paper(p. 67)
• D. What Else?(p. 69)
• E. How Do You Cite Encyclopedias?(p. 69)
• Chapter 4 Treatises(p. 70)
• A. What Is a Treatise?(p. 70)
• B. Why Are Treatises Useful?(p. 71)
• C. How Do You Research in Treatises?(p. 71)
• Treatises in paper(p. 71)
• D. What Else?(p. 77)
• E. How Do You Cite Treatises?(p. 77)
• Chapter 5 Legal Periodicals(p. 79)
• A. What Is a Legal Periodical?(p. 79)
• B. Why Are Legal Periodical Articles Useful?(p. 81)
• C. How Do You Research in Legal Periodicals?(p. 84)
• Traditional periodicals research involving an index(p. 84)
• Periodicals in full-text key-word searching(p. 86)
• Citating periodical articles(p. 88)
• D. What Else?(p. 88)
• E. How Do You Cite Legal Periodicals?(p. 90)
• Chapter 6 A.L.R. Annotations(p. 91)
• A. What Are American Law Reports (A.L.R.) Annontations?(p. 91)
• B. Why Is A.L.R. Useful?(p. 92)
• C. How Do You Research in A.L.R.?(p. 94)
• A.L.R. in paper(p. 94)
• A.L.R. in LexisNexis and Westlaw(p. 101)
• D. What Else?(p. 101)
• E. How Do You Cite A.L.R.?(p. 102)
• Chapter 7 Restatements(p. 103)
• A. What Are the Restatements?(p. 103)
• B. Why Are Restatements Useful?(p. 110)
• C. How Do You Research in Restatements?(p. 110)
• Restatements in paper(p. 110)
• Cases referring to the Restatements in paper(p. 112)
• Restatements in Westlaw and LexisNexis(p. 115)
• D. What Else?(p. 115)
• E. How Do You Cite Restatements?(p. 116)
• Chapter 8 Additional Secondary Authorities and Strategy(p. 117)
• A. Additional Secondary Authorities(p. 117)
• B. Research Strategy for Secondary Authorities(p. 118)
• 1. Choosing Among Secondary Authorities(p. 118)
• 2. Deciding Whether to Cite Secondary Authorities(p. 120)
• Unit III Case Law(p. 121)
• Preliminary Points(p. 122)
• Chapter 9 Reporters, Digests, and Their Alternatives(p. 123)
• A. What Is a Case?(p. 123)
• 1. How Does a Case Come to Be Decided?(p. 123)
• 2. How Are Court Systems Structured?(p. 124)
• 3. What Does a Published Case Look Like?(p. 124)
• B. Why Would You Research Which Cases?(p. 131)
• 1. The Common Law, Stare Decisis, and Precedent(p. 131)
• 2. Mandatory versus Persuasive Precedent: Federalism, Jurisdiction, and Level of Court(p. 132)
• a. Federalism and Jurisdiction(p. 132)
• b. Level of Court(p. 133)
• 3. History and Treatment of the Case(p. 133)
• a. Subsequent History(p. 134)
• b. Treatment(p. 134)
• 4. Publication Status(p. 135)
• 5. Additional Factors(p. 137)
• C. How Do You Research Cases?(p. 138)
• Cases through West digests and reporters(p. 139)
• Cases in Westlaw(p. 151)
• Cases in LexisNexis(p. 157)
• Cases through court websites(p. 164)
• D. What Else?(p. 165)
• E. How Do You Cite Cases?(p. 168)
• F. Summary and Last Words(p. 170)
• Chapter 10 Case Citators(p. 171)
• A. What Is a Case Citator, and Why Would You Use It?(p. 171)
• B. How Do You Use Case Citators?(p. 173)
• C. What Else?(p. 184)
• Unit IV Enacted Law(p. 187)
• Preliminary Points(p. 188)
• Chapter 11 Codes and Session Laws(p. 189)
• A. What Are Constitutions and Statutes?(p. 189)
• 1. What Is a Constitution?(p. 189)
• 2. What Is a Statute?(p. 192)
• 3. How Does Enacted Law Relate to Case Law?(p. 198)
• 4. What Is a Uniform Act?(p. 198)
• B. Why Would You Research Constitutions and Statutes?(p. 199)
• C. How Do You Research Constitutions and Statutes?(p. 200)
• Statutes in annotated codes in paper(p. 202)
• Statutes in session laws in paper(p. 213)
• Statutes in commercial electronic services(p. 215)
• Statutes via public websites(p. 219)
• Local ordinances(p. 220)
• D. What Else?(p. 221)
• E. How Do you Cite Constitutions and Statutes?(p. 222)
• F. Summary and Last Words(p. 223)
• Chapter 12 Legislative Process Materials(p. 225)
• A. Introduction: The Legislative Process(p. 225)
• 1. Introduction(p. 225)
• 2. The Legislative Process(p. 226)
• B. Legislative History(p. 228)
• 1. What Are Legislative History Materials?(p. 228)
• 2. Why Would You Research Legislative History Materials?(p. 238)
• 3. How Do You Research Legislative History?(p. 239)
• Legislative history in statutory codes(p. 241)
• Legislative history in United States Code Congressional and Administrative News (U.S.C.C.A.N.)(p. 243)
• Compiled legislative histories(p. 245)
• Legislative history materials through LexisNexis Congressional and Congressional Information Service(p. 247)
• Legislative history through THOMAS(p. 256)
• 4. What Else?(p. 258)
• 5. How Do You Cite Legislative Materials?(p. 259)
• C. Pending Legislation(p. 260)
• D. Concluding Points(p. 261)
• Unit V Administrative Materials(p. 265)
• Preliminary Points(p. 266)
• Chapter 13 Regulations(p. 267)
• A. What Is a Regulation?(p. 267)
• B. Why Would You Research Regulations?(p. 268)
• C. How Do You Research Regulations?(p. 270)
• Regulations research in statutes(p. 271)
• Regulations in a regulatory code (Code of Federal Regulations)(p. 275)
• Regulations in an administrative register (Federal Register)(p. 280)
• Regulations in agency websites(p. 286)
• Regulations research in case law(p. 286)
• D. What Else?(p. 289)
• E. How Do You Cite Regulations?(p. 290)
• Chapter 14 Agency Decisions(p. 291)
• A. What Is an Agency Decision?(p. 291)
• B. Why Would You Research Agency Decisions?(p. 297)
• C. How Do You Research Agency Decisions?(p. 297)
• Agency decisions research in statutes and regulations(p. 298)
• Agency decisions in the agency's own compilation--reporter or database(p. 300)
• Updating and validating agency decisions(p. 301)
• D. What Else?(p. 307)
• E. How Do You Cite Agency Decisions?(p. 307)
• Chapter 15 Mini-Libraries(p. 308)
• A. What Are Mini-Libraries, and Why Are They Useful?(p. 308)
• B. How Do You Research in Mini-Libraries?(p. 309)
• Administrative materials in paper looseleaf services(p. 309)
• Options for administrative materials research in electronic mini-libraries(p. 318)
• C. What Else?(p. 322)
• D. How Do You Cite to Mini-Libraries?(p. 322)
• Unit VI Rules of Procedure and Legal Ethics(p. 325)
• Preliminary Points(p. 326)
• Chapter 16 Rules of Procedure(p. 327)
• A. What Are Rules of Procedure?(p. 327)
• B. Why Would You Research Rules of Procedure?(p. 336)
• C. How Do You Research Rules of Procedure?(p. 336)
• Rules of Procedure(p. 337)
• D. What Else?(p. 340)
• E. How Do You Cite Rules of Procedure?(p. 343)
• Chapter 17 Rules of Professional Responsibility(p. 344)
• A. What Are Rules of Professional Responsibility?(p. 344)
• B. Why Would You Research Rules of Professional Responsibility?(p. 350)
• C. How Do You Research Rules of Professional Responsibility?(p. 350)
• Legal ethics(p. 352)
• D. What Else?(p. 363)
• E. How Do You Cite Rules of Professional Responsibility?(p. 363)
• Unit VII Conclusion(p. 365)
• Chapter 18 Developing an Integrated Research Strategy(p. 367)
• A. Introduction: The apARTment Problem(p. 367)
• B. The Research Journals(p. 368)
• 1. Researching for the Bank(p. 369)
• a. Jennifer Henderson(p. 369)
• b. Richard Soderberg(p. 371)
• 2. Researching for apARTment(p. 372)
• a. Steve Brunn(p. 372)
• b. Vickie Loher(p. 375)
• C. Our Observations(p. 376)
• Research Situations and Practice Sets(p. 379)
• Research Situations for Unit I Eight Cognitive Tasks and Unit II Secondary Authorities(p. 381)
• Practice Set for Chapter 2: From Curiosity to Closure: Eight Cognitive Tasks(p. 387)
• Practice Set for Chapter 3: Encyclopedias(p. 391)
• Practice Set for Chapter 4: Treatises(p. 393)
• Practice Set for Chapter 5: Legal Periodicals(p. 397)
• Practice Set for Chapter 6: A.L.R. Annotations(p. 401)
• Practice Set for Chapter 7: Restatements(p. 405)
• Research Situation and Background Reading for Unit III Case Law and Unit IV Enacted Law (State Statutes)(p. 409)
• First Practice Set for Chapter 9: Paper Reporters and Digests(p. 415)
• Second Practice Set for Chapter 9: Electronic Research in Case Law(p. 419)
• Practice Set for Chapter 10: Case Citators(p. 423)
• First Practice Set for Chapter 11: State Paper Codes and Session Laws(p. 427)
• Second Practice Set for Chapter 11: Electronic Research in State Statutes(p. 431)
• Research Situations and Practice Sets for Unit IV Chapters 11 and 12 Enacted Law (Federal Statutes)(p. 435)
• Third Practice Set for Chapter 11: Federal Codes and Session Laws(p. 439)
• Practice Set for Chapter 12: Legislative Process Materials(p. 443)
• Research Situations and Practice Set for Unit V Chapters 13, 14, 15 Administrative Materials(p. 447)
• Practice Set for Unit V: Administrative Materials(p. 451)
• Research Situation and Practice Set for Unit VI Chapter 16 Rules of Procedure(p. 457)
• Practice Set for Chapter 16: Rules of Procedure(p. 459)
• Research Situation and Practice Set for Unit VI Chapter 17 Rules of Professional Responsibility(p. 463)
• Practice Set for Chapter 17: Rules of Professional Responsibility(p. 465)
• Index(p. 471)

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Christina L. Kunz Professor of Law William Mitchell College of Law
Deborah A. Schmedemann Professor of Law Associate Dean for Skills and Clinics William Mitchell College of Law
Ann L. Bateson Director of the Law Library Associate Dean Professor of Law William Mitchell College of Law
Matthew P. Downs Professor of Law William Mitchell College of Law
Susan L. Catterall Leonard, Street, and Deinard, P.A.