Advance Legal Research Tips: Where to Start, Comparative Law, International Private Law Search
Discover valuable tips for advancing your legal research, including where to start with resources like Google, legal databases, and library catalogues. Dive into comparative law research on Quebec's mixed jurisdiction and explore international private law search terms. Uncover reference materials and major legal databases to enhance your legal expertise.
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Advance Legal Research Tips Maryvon C t Nahum Gelber Law Library maryvon.cote@mcgill.ca
Where to Start? Where do you start? Google? / Legal Databases? / Library Catalogue? Ask a Professor? / A Friend? / A Librarian? What are you searching? Case Law / Jurisprudence? Legislation? Secondary Sources / Doctrinal Sources? Which Language do you use? French? / English? / Other? Which Legal Database do you start using? WestlawNext Canada? / LexisNexis QuickLaw? / HeinOnline? / SOQUIJ? / CanLII? Other?
Comparative Law Research Quebec is a Mixed Jurisdiction What does that mean? Examples: http://www.juriglobe.ca/eng/sys-juri/class-poli/sys-mixtes.php. Language of the Law Thesauri / Taxonomy Library of Congress Subject Heading (McGill Library Catalogue) Canadian Abridgment (WestlawNext) / Canada Digest (QuickLaw) Plan de Classification (SOQUIJ Recherche Juridique) Subject Searching in the Index to Canadian Legal Literature (WestlawNext Canada) Very limited taxonomy in CanLII.
Topic Comparative research on Private International Law and Marriage What does google indicate to us? Where to go next?
International Private Law Search Terms International Private Law (Civil Law) Private International Law (Civil Law) Droit International Priv (Civil Law Fr.) Conflicts of Law (Common Law) Conflits des Lois (Common Law Fr.) Other languages: Internationales Privatrecht (German) Internationaal Privaatrecht (Dutch) Etc
Reference Materials Dictionaries Encyclopedias / Encyclopedic Digest / Restatements Acronyms / Abbreviations Legal Directories Style Manuals Thesauri Available in print and online via online via Law Subject, WestlawNext Canada, LexisNexis QuickLaw
Major Legal Databases (WestlawNext Canada) Canadian Sources (LawSource): Canadian Abridgment Digest Canadian Encyclopedic Digest (CED) American Sources (WestlawNext US): Restatements of the Law (American Law Institute) Law Reviews & Journal Find more via the International tab.
Major Legal Databases LexisNexis Quicklaw Canada Digest Halsbury s Laws of Canada / JurisClasseur Quebec Source Directory Tab La R f rence (Qu bec) Yvon Blais titles under Doctrine link SOQUIJ Recherche Juridique (Qu bec) Plan de classification
Library catalogue (s) Will enable you to: Access to what is available at McGill Library in print and in eBook format: Legal Treatises written by experts Festschrift / M langes Textbooks / Casebooks Thesis / Dissertations submitted at McGill Conference Publications / Worldcat Local Tip: Sort by Date / View all formats and languages
Finding Articles E-journals and Periodical Indexes Index to Canadian Legal Periodicals (Canada) Index to Legal Periodicals & Books / LegalTrac Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals Full-Text Databases HeinOnline, WestlawNext Canada, LexisNexis QuickLaw Available via the Law Subject guide (via the McGill Library homepage)
Foreign and International Law Foreign Sources Foreign Law Guide HeinOnline for primary sources in US, UK, Israel, International, Constitutional France & EU tab UK tab International Law Sources Arbitration tab Human Rights tab United Nations Law Collection via HeinOnline Oxford Reports on International
Not sure where to start? Ask a librarian at the Nahum Gelber Law Library Service Desk Hours: Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm. Email: reference.law@mcgill.ca
