Friday, March 23, 2012

Colorado Legal Research Class

Reminder: Summer Semester priority registration begins Sunday, March 25 and continues through the end of the month. Check classes http://www.law.du.edu/index.php/registrar/class-schedules by clicking Summer 2012. We recommend Colorado Legal Research, a skills class, on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2:45pm until 4:25pm.

This course will introduce students to legal materials in print generated by executive/administrative, legislative, and judicial branches of Colorado government. Students will develop research strategies for answering legal questions using primary and secondary resources and learn how to relate the various sources of authority to the structure of Colorado government. Students are required to bring laptop computers to classes and enrollment is limited to ten students. 

Class topics include statutes, legal dictionaries, legislative history, reporters/cases, digests, Shepard’s citations, American Law Reports (A.L.R.), practice materials, legal periodicals and indexes, legal forms and directories, administrative materials, and court rules.
This skills class will be taught by Sheila Green, Reference Librarian. Register for Colorado Legal Research on March 25.