LAW 6071 - [Advanced Legal Research: United States Legal Research for LL.M. Students]

1 credit. Graduate program grading: HH, H, S, U.

Next offered 2014-2015. Enrollment limited to: graduate students. Attendance is mandatory at the first class session. Course meets first 7 weeks of the term.

F. Cadmus.

This course will introduce LL.M. students to basic legal research in U.S. materials that will be valuable to them in their course work at Cornell and in practice. The focus will be on understanding and finding primary legal sources, including statutory codes, session laws, administrative regulations, and court decisions, as well as explanatory materials, such as law reviews and treatises.