Prerequisite: LRRW
Outcomes: Students who take this course will understand governmental structures and where law comes from; court structures and stare decisis; the relationship between statutes, regulations, cases and agencies; where primary law is officially recorded; how to conduct cost effective research using both online and print formats; concepts of Boolean searching; how to locate Federal and New Mexico constitutions, statutes, regulations, case law and court rules; how statutes, regulations and case law digests are organized and hierarchically structured; how court rules are organized and adopted; how to use statutory annotations to locate related regulations and case law; how to find a public law; how to locate and use ALRs, treatises and law reviews; how to locate forms, checklists, jury instructions; how to update and citate statutes, regulations, and case law; how to locate a parallel citation; how to apply the correct citation form for statutes, regulations and case law under the New Mexico Rules of Citation (N. M. Sup. Ct. R. 23-112).
Methodologies: Lecture and hands on practice opportunities (in and out of class)
Required textbook: None
Assessment: Graded assignments; final project
Required text: The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (current edition)(www.legalbluebook.com)