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Like Sands Through The Hourglass: How To Develop A Good Legal Research Problem, Susan T. Phillips
Like Sands Through The Hourglass: How To Develop A Good Legal Research Problem, Susan T. Phillips
Susan T. Phillips
Attorneys have a duty to conduct adequate legal research. Law schools have an obligation to educate students in the standard research techniques. To learn research, students must actually perform research using research problems. Therefore, professors must design appropriate problems for students to learn research skills. The first part of this article discusses the fundamentals of developing a research problem. The second part provides examples of research problems with an explanation of their development.