Like Sands through the Hourglass: How to Develop a Good Legal Research Problem

Authors

Susan T. Phillips, Texas A&M University School of LawFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

8-2009

Journal Title

Legal Reference Services Quarterly

ISSN

0270-319X

Abstract

Attorneys have a duty to conduct adequate legal research. Law schools have an obligation to educate students in the standard research techniques. To learn research, students must actually perform research using research problems. Therefore, professors must design appropriate problems for students to learn research skills. The first part of this article discusses the fundamentals of developing a research problem. The second part provides examples of research problems with an explanation of their development.

First Page

219

Last Page

238

Volume Number

28

Issue Number

2021-03-04

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Recommended Citation

Susan T. Phillips, Like Sands through the Hourglass: How to Develop a Good Legal Research Problem, 28 Legal Reference Services Q. 219 (2009).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.tamu.edu/facscholar/145