Welcome to our Web-based Legal Research Tutorial

This tutorial will give you a basic introduction to the main sources of legal materials. The tutorial is self-guided and self paced. You may either proceed in the order of the links on the left-hand side of the page or choose to look at the topics in a manner of your own choosing.

The web-based tutorial was created to give a very broad overview of legal research. For further reading on the process of legal research, the following books are excellent resources:

Robert C. Berring, Finding the Law (11th Ed.1999)

Roy M. Mersky & Donald J. Dunn, Fundamentals of Legal Research (8th Ed. 2002)

Morris L. Cohen, Robert C. Berring & Kent C. Olson, How to Find the Law (9th Ed. 1989)

Morris L. Cohen & Kent C. Olson, Legal Research in a Nutshell (7th Ed. 2000)

Instructors and Students
If you are using this tutorial as an introduction for a S.J. Quinney Law Library legal research short-class, please click on the link Instructors/Students link on the left for more information and downloadable handouts.