Sentences with phrase «called legal research skills»

For a few years, our Associate Librarian for Patron Services who has several years of litigation experience has been teaching a 1 - credit course called Legal Research Skills for Practice.

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Call it, perhaps, «research skills and methods for the lawyer» and provide a solid grounding in all of the traditional and modern legal research techniques but also branch out into the literature of other disciplines and the challenging breadth of the Internet.

This special library experience then facilitated another move into course training development functions that called for sound legal research skills that were closely tied to my law library training, education and development.

Doing so effectively calls for research skills beyond those that students acquire through working with domestic legal resources.56 Mary Rumsey explains that students must go beyond their dependence on domestic databases to learn how to access the different resources relevant to international and comparative law.57 She describes, as examples, the need to find customary international law through treaties, laws of other nations, diplomatic correspondence, and scholarly works, and she points out that civil law research requires much more emphasis on statutes and scholarship than on the case law that plays such a dominant role in American legal analysis.58 While there have been significant advances in access to foreign and international legal sources, there are still substantial barriers, 59 and the research methods needed to obtain these resources can be different (in ways either subtle or stark) from those that apply to domestic law.

As part of a new Academic Success and Wellness program at York University's Osgoode Hall Law School, Ronda Bessner, the Assistant Dean of the Juris Doctor (JD) Program, led a session this past Monday called From Keele Street to Bay Street: Learning About the Writing & Research Skills Necessary to Succeed in the Legal Profession.