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Category: Legal Research Tips
Fair Use: Quick Guide
Statutes Cases Legal Treatises Legal Journals Other (Secondary) Sources Citators Other, Scholarly Books Effective legal research takes into consideration the amount of time and money you expend, as well as your access to research resources. While CORE II students certainly may lack time and cannot pay for their CORE research, they do have educational use …Read the Rest…
Legislative History “genres”
In my last post I mentioned that the technical/mechanical tools for working with legislative materials (at least at the federal level) have lately become much more accessible and, if not intuitive, at least not so much of an actual barrier to research. This has in fact been the general trend in legal information, and therefore …Read the Rest…
Regulations under the Affordable Care Act and Dodd-Frank
Interested in the significant regulatory actions* taken under the PPACA (the Affordable Care Act, P.L. 111-148) or the Dodd-Frank Act (Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, P.L. 111-203)? You can easily find them on the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) site. OIRA’s site is at RegInfo.gov. Choose the “Regulatory Review” drop-down menu. From the …Read the Rest…
Demystifying Legislative History
Knowing how to do legislative-history research, at least in the federal system, is now not really any different than simply having general knowledge of the work-product of Congress: what, in a documentary sense, is it that the legislature actually does? It wasn’t always so. “Legislative history” research has long had a sort of mystique among …Read the Rest…
Health and Human Services Regulations
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has an excellent page about their regulatory activities. It offers three ways to find HHS regulations: by regulatory agenda, by operating division, or by “top” regulations. In addition to acting as a finding tool the page also gives general information overviews on regulatory review and on policies and guidelines. The …Read the Rest…
Fair Use: Quick Guide
Statutes Cases Legal Treatises Legal Journals Other (Secondary) Sources Citators Other, Scholarly Books Effective legal research takes into consideration the amount of time and money you expend, as well as your access to research resources. While CORE II students certainly may lack time and cannot pay for their CORE research, they do have educational use …Read the Rest…
Legislative History “genres”
In my last post I mentioned that the technical/mechanical tools for working with legislative materials (at least at the federal level) have lately become much more accessible and, if not intuitive, at least not so much of an actual barrier to research. This has in fact been the general trend in legal information, and therefore …Read the Rest…
Regulations under the Affordable Care Act and Dodd-Frank
Interested in the significant regulatory actions* taken under the PPACA (the Affordable Care Act, P.L. 111-148) or the Dodd-Frank Act (Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, P.L. 111-203)? You can easily find them on the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) site. OIRA’s site is at RegInfo.gov. Choose the “Regulatory Review” drop-down menu. From the …Read the Rest…
Demystifying Legislative History
Knowing how to do legislative-history research, at least in the federal system, is now not really any different than simply having general knowledge of the work-product of Congress: what, in a documentary sense, is it that the legislature actually does? It wasn’t always so. “Legislative history” research has long had a sort of mystique among …Read the Rest…
Health and Human Services Regulations
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has an excellent page about their regulatory activities. It offers three ways to find HHS regulations: by regulatory agenda, by operating division, or by “top” regulations. In addition to acting as a finding tool the page also gives general information overviews on regulatory review and on policies and guidelines. The …Read the Rest…