Legal Writing and Research Commons^™

The slideshow is the basis for seven short "flipped-classroom"-style videos on six ways to find cases relevant to a client's problem or issue. The slideshow covers these six tools and techniques for finding cases: secondary sources; annotated codes; tables of authorities; Shepard's and KeyCite; the West Key Number System (the West Digests); and full-text keyword searching of case law databases. It is accompanied by a brief overview (in Word format), which is also available via my Selected Works site.

These slides illustrate a presentation on getting started with researching foreign legal systems and foreign law. The presentation was for the Spring semester Comparative Law class at the University of San Francisco School of Law. The Zief Law Library's guide on "Researching Foreign Legal Systems" (http://legalresearch.usfca.edu/ForeignLegalSystems) accompanies this presentation.