This guide provides a starting point for conducting legal research using the VU Library.

• Case Law
• Legislation
• Secondary Sources
  • Books
  • Dictionaries & encyclopedias
  • Journals
• Law resources by subject: A - K
  • Administrative Law
  • Constitutional Law
  • Contract Law
  • Corporations Law
  • Criminal Law
  • Employment Law
  • Equity & Trusts
  • Evidence
  • European Union Law
  • Family Law
  • Human Rights Law
  • Immigration Law
  • Intellectual Property
• Law resources by subject: L - Z
  • Legal Ethics
  • Legal Writing & Drafting
  • Real Property Law
  • Sports Law
  • Statutory Interpretation
  • Succession Law
  • Taxation Law
  • Tort Law
• AGLC

Legal Research Classes
Semester 2, Block 2, 2021

Finding Primary Sources

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.  Students will also learn how to locate up-to-date legislation and associated extrinsic materials.

• 2pm Mon 30 August
• 10am Thu 9 September

No bookings are required. Click the class link to attend.  

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.

• 2pm Thu 2 September
• 2pm Fri 3 September
• 11am Mon 6 September
• 2pm Thu 9 September
   

No bookings are required. Click the class link to attend.  

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.

• 10am Thu 2 September
• 3pm Mon 6 September
• 12noon Thu 9 September

Bookings are required and may be made via the Learning Hub.

https://learninghub.vu.edu.au/students/events/search?query=law&EventType=&campus=

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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