Legal Research and Writing: كتب الكتابة و البحث القانوني

The starting points -- Interpreting and predicting the common law -- Construing written law -- The law library and its basic resources -- General research suggestions -- Preliminary problem analysis -- Research on questions governed by the common law -- Research on questions governed by statutes and other forms of written law -- Computer-assisted legal research -- Common units of legal writing ; writing and revising -- Written report of analysis and research findings -- Arguments to courts.

This must-have handbook is the only text for legal writing and research that covers all three key components--research, writing, and analysis. The book's distinctive features include: comprehensive coverage, state-of-the-art emphasis on electronic research, a process approach to lead writers from prewriting to drafting, editing, and the final draft, and basics on the legal system.

The book covers objective writing, legal research, and adversarial writing in a process method, and provides multiple annotated samples of good and bad writing throughout the text many of which use a common hypothetical, and teaches the TREAT method and explanatory synthesis that produce powerful and effective objective and adversarial writing.

Research Methods for Law introduces undergraduate and postgraduate students to available methods of research - legalistic, empirical, comparative and theoretical - drawing on actual research projects as examples. The book is written by a team of contributors with a broad range of teaching and research experience in law, criminal justice and socio-legal studies.Designed to serve as a handbook for research methods courses with its coverage of the principal research traditions, the book will also appeal to students of related disciplines who have an interest in legal issues including those from criminology, sociology, psychology, government, politics and social administration. The rich mix of general lessons, theoretical engagement and practical examples will be of real value to students.