Researching and Writing in Law - Second Edition

The likely readers for this book are lawyers or law students who are involved in researching and writing — whether it be for an undergraduate assignment, a masters by coursework paper, a journal article or a doctoral thesis. My expectation is that they will not necessarily read this book from cover-to-cover, but dip into it and use it when information and ideas are required quickly. The book contains chapters on formulating a research topic, doctrinal and non-doctrinal research methodologies including a brief introduction to social science methodologies for lawyers, basic electronic research techniques, project management and legal writing basics including preparing a research proposal, legal essays, casenotes and research memoranda. There are also extensive research checklists that are useful for locating freely available electronic legal research sources. The jurisdictions covered include Australia, Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia, England, Canada, United States, European Union, New Zealand, and India.