Class Notes
8/21/03
– Intro, “don’t take notes on this”
8/22/03
– Statutes and legislative history, the structure of published statutes,
annotated codes, the importance of annotations, how to read a statute, updating
statutes, citation form for a
8/28/03
– More on statutes and legislative history, federal statutes, session laws, the
U.S. Code, annotated codes and alternatives, traditional and electronic methods
of statutory research, legislative history
8/29/03
– More on legislative history, federal regulations, C.F.R. and F.R.,
9/4/03
– More on regulations, finding regulations, state regulations, Attorney
Generals’ opinions
9/5/03
– Case law, citation format, where case law is published, rules of thumb on
case selection
9/11/03
– Errors on the last assignment, the Westlaw dude speaks, the Lexis lady talks
9/18/03
– More on general sources, stuff for law students, articles, law reviews, ILP, LegalTrac, other indices, Restatements
9/19/03
– National Conference of Commissioners and uniform laws, Bluebook stuff