Bachelor of Laws: Home
About this guide
This guide provides a starting point for conducting legal research using the VU Library.
- Case Law
- Legislation
- Secondary Sources
- Law resources by subject: A - K
- Law resources by subject: L - Z
- AGLC
Legal Research Classes
Legal Research Classes
Summer Block , 2022
Click on the time and date to attend the class
Finding Case Law
An introduction to locating primary legal sources. Students will learn how to use a case citator to locate case law and information about case law.
2:30pm Wed 19 January 2022
No bookings are required. Click the class link to attend. (links are added on the day of the class)
Finding Legislation - Law and Criminology
Students will learn how to locate up-to-date legislation and associated extrinsic materials.
- 2:30pm Mon 24 January 2022
No bookings are required. Click the class link to attend. (links are added on the day of the class)
Finding Secondary Sources for Law
The focus of the class is on analysing a question, using a legal dictionary and building a search statement to locate legal journal articles. The class includes an overview of how to reference journal articles using AGLC.
- 11:30am Tue 18 January 2022
12:00pm Fri 28 January 2022
No bookings are required. Click the class link to attend. (links are added on the day of the class)
AGLC4 - Referencing
This interactive class is suitable for beginners, or those wishing to improve their AGLC4 skills.
- 10:00am Fri 21 January 2022
2:30pm Thu 27 January 2022
No bookings are required. Click the class link to attend. (links are added on the day of the class)
Inquiry Law
This class takes students through the process of locating discussion of a legal principle in a textbook, locating case law that is referred to in the textbook and citing those cases correctly.
- 1:00pm Tue 25 January 2022
Bookings are required and may be made via the Learning Hub.
https://learninghub.vu.edu.au/students/events/search?query=law&EventType=&campus=
Database Quick Find
Contacts
Mr Murray Greenway
(College Librarian, College of Law and Justice)
murray.greenway@vu.edu.au
+61 3 9919 1834
Ms Debra Hutchinson
(Librarian, College of Law and Justice)
debra.hutchinson@vu.edu.au
+61 3 9919 1850
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