Just Research provides students with the information and skills that will enable them to do thorough and cost-effective research as soon as they enter into practice. Highly respected authors Laurel Currie Oates and Anne Enquist describe the sources that can be used to research the most common types of legal issues, for example, issues governed by state statutes and regulations, issues governed by federal statutes and regulations, issues governed by local law, and issued governed by common law.

In this intensely powerful and personal new text, Michelle Fine widens the methodological imagination for students, educators, scholars, and researchers interested in crafting research with communities. Fine shares her struggles over the course of 30 years to translate research into policy and practice that can enhance the human condition and create a more just world. Animated by the presence of W.E.B. DuBois, Gloria Anzaldúa, Maxine Greene, and Audre Lorde, the book examines a wide array of critical participatory action research (PAR) projects involving school pushouts, Muslim American youth, queer youth of color, women in prison, and children navigating under-resourced schools. Throughout, Fine assists readers as they consider sensitive decisions about epistemology, ethics, politics, and methods; critical approaches to analysis and interpretation; and participatory strategies for policy development and organizing. Just Research in Contentious Times is an invaluable guide for creating successful participatory action research projects in times of inequity and uncertainty. Book Features: Reviews the theoretical and historical foundations of critical participatory research. Addresses why, how, with whom, and for whom research is designed. Offers case studies of critical PAR projects with youth of color, Muslim American youth, indigenous and refugee activists, and LGBTQ youth of color. Integrates critical race, feminist, postcolonial, and queer studies.

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This new legal research text reflects the reality of modern practice by offering a fully integrated approach to both print and electronic sources. JUST RESEARCH provides a comprehensive introduction that helps first-year students develop the skills they will use throughout their legal careers. The text is constructed for maximum effectiveness: teaches the best source for a project, whether paper or electronic, To more accurately depict how practicing lawyers are conducting research now emphasizes electronic research in recognition of its increasing use by attorneys; students learn how to use generic search engines (such as Google), fee-based services (such as LexisNexis, LoisLaw, VersusLaw, and Westlaw), and free services (such as FindLaw and government sponsored websites) to find relevant materials efficiently uses a problem-based organization that focuses on categories of legal issues, rather than organizing the text around sources. In addition to showing students how to research statutory and common law problems, The book teaches how to research constitutional issues, issues governed by court rules and municipal codes, and factual issues. provides a complete introduction To The essentials of legal research from authors who use their extensive experience teaching first-year students to focus on the topics and skills students really need presents extensive, step-by-step illustrations of how to perform legal research practice pointers throughout the book supply helpful tips on how practicing attorneys handle their research problems exercises to help students gain experience on a CD-ROM included with the book JUST RESEARCH incorporates current educational research on transfer of learning to help students apply what they learn in one situation to another: first, The authors identify and describe the underlying structures for conducting legal research next, they show students how they can use that underlying structure to research problems that appear to be different on the surface finally, The authors make connections for students and offer specific instructions about how to use what they learn in practice