Community of Online Research Assignments

Lesson Plan June 19, 2019

Legal Research: Preliminary Analysis Worksheet

Short Description

This worksheet asks students to reflect on the type of primary law relevant to their legal research topic, as well as ask them to consider the levels of government, possible keywords, and preferred time period (current versus historical).

Learning Outcomes

Students will be able to define their information scope, and develop a legal research strategy.

Discipline

Course Context (e.g. how it was implemented or integrated):

Worksheet may be handed out after a presentation that defines different types of primary law, and government levels.

Suggested Citation

Mayhook, Zoeanna. "Legal Research: Preliminary Analysis Worksheet." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments). 2019. https://projectcora.org/lesson/legal-research-preliminary-analysis-worksheet

Kari Whitney

Gunalchéesh/thank you, Zoe! This was helpful in creating a short legal research module for my Research Essentials course!