United States

Research Guides and Sites on the Internet

Best's Legal Bookmarks: - links to leading US legal research sites

Bora Laskin Law Library Guide to Legal Research, American Legal Resources.: - guide to researching US law for the Canadian researcher

Borlase, Law Library and Legal Research Guides.: - guides to research strategy, secondary sources, researching case law and statutes in the US

Boston College Law Library, Research Guides and Videos.: - guides to researching case law and statutes in the US

Harvard Research Guides, Legal Analysis and Research Strategy.: - the basics of research strategy in the US context

Indiana University School of Law, Law Library Pathfinders.: - guides to secondary sources, researching case law and statutes in the US

Martin, Introduction to Basic Legal Citation.: - guide to US legal citation

Queen's University Faculty of Law, Legal Research Materials, American Legal Materials.: - guide to researching US law for the Canadian researcher

Tyberski, The Virtual Chase.: - guides and information about legal research resources and strategies

Berring & Edinger, Finding the Law, 12th ed. (St. Paul, Minn.: Thomson West, 2005).

Best et al, Legal Research - 1995 (Vancouver: Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia, 1995).

Cohen & Olson, Legal Research, 6th ed. (St. Paul: West Publishing Company, 1996).

Dunn, Jacobstein & Mersky, Fundamentals of Legal Research, 6th ed. (Westbury: Foundation Press, 1994).

Fine, American Legal Systems: A Resource and Reference Guide (Cincinnati: Anderson Publishing Co., 1997).

Kunz, Schmedemann, Downs and Bateson, The Process of Legal Research, 4th ed. (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1996).

Wren & Wren, The Legal Research Manual, 2nd ed. (Madison: Ambrose and Adams, 1986).

Wren & Wren, Using Computers in Legal Research (Madison: Ambrose and Adams, 1994).