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Cost Effective Legal Research, Mike Martinez Jr, Katy Stein

Law Librarian Scholarship

This article discusses free and low-cost legal research resources that can help reduce the cost of litigation. A lawyer using such resources must appreciate not only the advantages of such resources, but also the disadvantages.

Updated Lessons In Conducting Basics Legal Research By Pro Se Litigants Who Cannot Afford An Attorney, Mike Martinez Jr, Michael P. Forrest, Paul S. Miller

Faculty Articles

The first generation of this article was written and published by The Scholar in 2006.1 Because the trend to accessing legal materials is geared more and more toward the Internet, the tour of the book world that was the focus of the original article requires expansion to include those sources available on the World Wide Web.2 Thus, this article contains most of the content in the original article, and then is supplemented by discussions of content currently available from online legal resources.

Too Broke To Hire An Attorney - How To Conduct Basic Legal Research In A Law Library, Mike Martinez Jr, Michael P. Forrest

Faculty Articles

This article targets as its audience pro se patrons - individuals who cannot afford counsel and need to conduct their own legal research. The poor and disenfranchised have historically had difficulty getting equal access to justice. The cause is often the fact that they cannot afford legal representation. This could lead to exclusion from the legal process. A solution might be self-representation, which presents its own difficulties, as the pro se litigant will likely need to access resources in a law library.

Federal Economic Regulation Through Wage And Price Control Programs: 1917–1980 A Selected Bibliography, Bernard D. Reams Jr.

Faculty Articles

A significant portion of the law of the United States is currently embodied in, formed by, or effectuated through the rules, regulations, programs, and policies of governmental agencies. Early legal decisions on economic stability issues were made by administrative bureaus, boards and commissions, and many were rarely reviewed by courts, reported in newspapers or examined by scholars. Most administrators’ decision were made informally, undramatically, in the deep recesses of their bureaus. Many of their records rested unrecognized and poorly indexed in official government documents or in the National Archives.

For researchers attempting to bring together the materials involved in legislating …