Pennsylvania Legal Research

Pennsylvania Legal Research

Author: Barbara J. Busharis

Publisher: Carolina Academic Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781531007522

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Pennsylvania Legal Research, now in its second edition, was written to provide a practical introduction to legal research with a special focus on Pennsylvania. It is intended to be of use to students who are beginning their legal careers; to practitioners who may need a concise description of research tools they have not used extensively; to attorneys from other jurisdictions who are experienced legal researchers, but who lack familiarity with basic Pennsylvania sources; and to anyone who needs a practical introduction to legal research, with a focus on Pennsylvania law. The second edition begins with an overview of the legal research process and a discussion of research methods. The next chapters describe the more specific steps involved in finding and analyzing judicial opinions, statutes, legislative history, constitutional law, administrative law, and rules of court. The original chapter on secondary sources has been expanded and divided into two chapters, Secondary Sources and Practice Materials. This division reinforces the distinction between more scholarly sources, which may be cited as persuasive authority, and more practice-oriented sources, which are useful research tools without being cited themselves. At the end of the book, an Appendix provides guidance on incorporating legal citations into documents, and highlights citation issues that frequently arise when citing Pennsylvania sources. Updating tools are discussed throughout the book rather than in a separate chapter. The order in which the chapters are assigned in a legal research course can vary. For example, professors who prefer to begin with secondary sources can easily start with those chapters and then return to the earlier chapters on primary sources. The underlying assumption of this edition is that a majority of research will be conducted using online sources; print resources are still acknowledged, but the focus has shifted from choosing between print and online resources to choosing the most efficient research methods for different types of authority. This book is part of the Legal Research Series, edited by Suzanne E. Rowe, Director of Legal Research and Writing, University of Oregon School of Law.


Pennsylvania Legal Research Handbook

Pennsylvania Legal Research Handbook

Author: Frank Yining Liu

Publisher: ALM Publishing

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781577862864

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Newly updated, this Pennsylvania-specific guide for legal-research methods, programs, and resources is a must-have for attorneys, law students, librarians, paralegals, or anyone who conducts legal research in the state of Pennsylvania.


Research Handbook on Contract Design

Research Handbook on Contract Design

Author: Corrales Compagnucci, Marcelo

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2022-05-03

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 1839102284

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Weaving together theoretical, historical, and legal approaches, this book offers a fresh perspective on the modern revival of the concept of allegiance, identifying and contextualising its evolving association with theories of citizenship.


Research Handbook on the Economics of Corporate Law

Research Handbook on the Economics of Corporate Law

Author: Claire A. Hill

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2012-04-01

Total Pages: 497

ISBN-13: 1781005214

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Comprising essays specially commissioned for the volume, leading scholars who have shaped the field of corporate law and governance explore and critique developments in this vibrant and expanding area and offer possible directions for future research. This important addition to the Research Handbooks in Law and Economics series provides insights into subjects such as the role of directors, shareholders, creditors and employees; empirical studies of litigation and shareholder activism; executive compensation; corporate gatekeepers; comparative law; and behavioral approaches to law and finance. Topics are organized within five sections: corporate constituencies, insider governance, gatekeepers, jurisdiction, and new theory. Taken as a whole, the volume serves as an introduction for those new to the field and as a reference for those unfamiliar with some of the topics discussed. Authoritative and accessible, the Research Handbook on the Economics of Corporate Law will be a valuable resource for students, scholars, and practitioners of corporate law and economics.


Research Handbook on the Economics of Insurance Law

Research Handbook on the Economics of Insurance Law

Author: Daniel Schwarcz

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2015-08-28

Total Pages: 549

ISBN-13: 1782547142

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The fields of insurance law and insurance economics have long and distinguished scholarly histories, but participants in the two disciplines have not always communicated well across academic silos. This Handbook encourages more policy-relevant insurance e


Research Handbook on Corporate Crime and Financial Misdealing

Research Handbook on Corporate Crime and Financial Misdealing

Author: Jennifer Arlen

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2018-04-28

Total Pages: 389

ISBN-13: 1783474475

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Jennifer Arlen brings together 13 original chapters by leading scholars that examine how to deter corporate misconduct through public enforcement and private interventions. Scholars from a variety of disciplines present both theoretical and empirical analyses of organizational and individual liability for corporate crime, liability for foreign corruption, securities fraud enforcement, compliance, corporate investigations, and whistleblowing. This Research Handbook also highlights promising avenues for future research.


The Oxford Handbook of Empirical Legal Research

The Oxford Handbook of Empirical Legal Research

Author: Peter Cane

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2012-05-17

Total Pages: 1112

ISBN-13: 0191635421

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The empirical study of law, legal systems and legal institutions is widely viewed as one of the most exciting and important intellectual developments in the modern history of legal research. Motivated by a conviction that legal phenomena can and should be understood not only in normative terms but also as social practices of political, economic and ethical significance, empirical legal researchers have used quantitative and qualitative methods to illuminate many aspects of law's meaning, operation and impact. In the 43 chapters of The Oxford Handbook of Empirical Legal Research leading scholars provide accessible and original discussions of the history, aims and methods of empirical research about law, as well as its achievements and potential. The Handbook has three parts. The first deals with the development and institutional context of empirical legal research. The second - and largest - part consists of critical accounts of empirical research on many aspects of the legal world - on criminal law, civil law, public law, regulatory law and international law; on lawyers, judicial institutions, legal procedures and evidence; and on legal pluralism and the public understanding of law. The third part introduces readers to the methods of empirical research, and its place in the law school curriculum.