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
Backlinks: FSU Courses:LIS5417