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OTLid0000321 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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MnU |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20201105133319.0 |
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m o d s |
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180907s2016 mnu o 0 0 eng d |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
MnU |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Transcribing agency |
MnU |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
KF385.A4 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Steenken, Beau |
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author |
| 245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Sources of American Law |
| Remainder of title |
An Introduction to Legal Research |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Beau Steenken |
| 264 #2 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Open Textbook Library |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
CALI's eLangdell® Press |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
1 online resource |
| 490 0# - SERIES STATEMENT |
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| Series statement |
Open textbook library. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Preface -- The United States Legal System -- Constitutions & Statutes -- Judicial Opinions & Common Law. -- Administrative Regulations -- Electronic Research -- Secondary Sources -- The Research Process -- |
| 520 0# - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
At its most basic definition the practice of law comprises conducting research to find relevant rules of law and then applying those rules to the specific set of circumstances faced by a client. However, in American law, the legal rules to be applied derive from myriad sources, complicating the process and making legal research different from other sorts of research. This text introduces first-year law students to the new kind of research required to study and to practice law. It seeks to demystify the art of legal research by following a "Source and Process" approach. First, the text introduces students to the major sources of American law and describes the forms the various authorities traditionally took in print. After establishing this base, the text proceeds to instruct students on the methods they will most likely use in practice, namely electronic research techniques and the consultation of secondary sources. Sources of Law incorporates screencasts currently hosted on YouTube that actively demonstrate the processes described in the static text. Finally, the text illustrates how the different pieces come together in the legal research process. Sources of Law focuses on realistic goals for 1Ls to learn in a relatively small amount of instruction time, and so focuses mainly on the basics. It does introduce some advanced material so that 1Ls can recognize pieces of information they may encounter in research, but it does not fully cover researching materials outside the scope of the traditional 1L course. As such, it is best-suited for introductory legal research courses for 1Ls. |
| 542 1# - INFORMATION RELATING TO COPYRIGHT STATUS |
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| Copyright statement |
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE |
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| Language note |
In English. |
| 588 0# - SOURCE OF DESCRIPTION NOTE |
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| Source of description note |
Description based on print resource |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Law |
| Form subdivision |
Textbooks |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Brooks, Tina M. |
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author |
| 710 2# - ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME |
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| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element |
Open Textbook Library |
| Relator term |
distributor |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier |
<a href="https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/321">https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/321</a> |
| Public note |
Access online version |
