Seminar Papers & Law Review Notes: Home

This guide will help you to identify and use legal resources when writing a seminar paper. Each tab includes a short overview of the subject, links to databases, websites, books, and other resources accessible through the library. For further help with your research, please contact the Law Library.

A research paper is based on significant legal research that:

• Identifies a problem
• Analyzes the current law
• Interprets the law or proposes changes to the law
• Resolves the problem

Requirements according to the Student Handbook:

• "significant legal research, organization, and analysis"
• "at least 6,250 words in length, exclusive of footnotes or endnotes"
• "supported by footnotes, endnotes, or other appropriate citation of authority"

• A brief
• A compilation of other people's work
• A digest of the law