Prior reading schedule

Created Sunday 03 January 2021



Week 11

Read chapter 4 - Secondary resources.

Week 9 - Quiz review and Intro to Statutes

Read chapter 5

Week 8 - Quiz


Week 7

Read Chapter 8, Validating your Research
Additional Resources

https://legal.thomsonreuters.com/en/products/westlaw/keycite (Links to an external site.)
http://www.lexisnexis.com/supp/lawschool/resources/be-confident-shepards.pdf (Links to an external site.)

Week 6

Read Finding Case Law, Chapter 6 in most editions.

Week 5

Read "Using Case Law," Chapter 7 in most editions.

Week 4

Review Chapter 3
And.../NoloChapter2-14thedition.pdf
(don't ask where you got it)


Week 2/3

../LIS5417-Categories of Law Slides.pdf
Review last week's readings, and
Chapter 3 - Understanding the Basics of the Law.

Also, let's try to "finalize" team plans; a thing we can do asynchronously.



Week 1

Please begin reading
Transcendental Nonsense
and
The Law of the Horse




This is the reading schedule (in reverse chronological order) for the last time the source was taught, you may expect the ordering to be similar for this semester.


Week 13 -

Finishing Chapter 4 - Also, skim the following:
External Resources

uh, and this?
https://theintercept.com/2021/04/02/ice-database-surveillance-lexisnexis/

Week 12 -

Chapter 4 - Secondary Sources Intro

Week 11

CHAPTER 5 FOR REAL. ☺


Week 9

Quiz! We will have a good amount of time to ask questions and review. The week after we will hit the ground running with
Chapter 5

Week 8

Read Chapter 8 - Validating your Research

Additional Resources
Old school detail - https://www.lexisnexis.com/shepards-citations/printsupport/shepardize_print.pdf

https://legal.thomsonreuters.com/en/products/westlaw/keycite
http://www.lexisnexis.com/supp/lawschool/resources/be-confident-shepards.pdf



Week 7

Read Chapter 6 - Finding Case Law

Week 6

Read Chapter *7* - Using Case Law
(I know the "Finding Case Law" Chapter comes first, and always thought it an odd choice — why find something if you don't know what it is first?)

Week 5

Review Last weeks. Getting through them THIS WEEK, I promise. ☺

Week 4 Readings

Review Chapter 3
And.../NoloChapter2-14thedition.pdf
(don't ask where you got it)

Week 2/3 Readings

Please read Chapter 3 - "Understanding the Basics of the Law"
Additionally, please read:
Transcendental Nonsense
and
The Law of the Horse

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