CJT 154: Everyday Law I: Law and Civil Liberties

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This guide is designed to refer you to books, articles, databases, and other resources that will help you research, write, and argue issues in your mock moot court.

All legal research should start with an analysis of the legal issues. Read your record to find out:

• what issues are involved;
• what legal principles you need to learn more about; and
• what major cases the lower court relied upon.

Once you have read your record:

• gather any legal materials mentioned in the record;
• read the cases, statutes, regulations, and other legal precedent and note additional citations to other materials;
• Shepardize all legal material to check status and to find additional pertinent resources; and
• look for briefs of any underlying cases to see how issues were argued in the court below.

Start here if you need a definition or explanation of your legal term.