Oregon Legal Research

The sixth edition of Oregon Legal Research emphasizes a user-friendly, process-oriented approach to state legal research, with significant additions of checklists and summaries to provide easy, efficient access to important information. The organization of chapters follows steps in the research process but reflects recent law student and professor feedback on how readers are using this book. New chapters cover local and tribal law, as these topics may be important aspects of thorough research in the state.

Oregon Legal Research explains the sources, search techniques, and analysis of secondary source materials, constitutional law, statutes, legislative history, local law, administrative law, cases, and tribal law. Each chapter on primary sources integrates relevant information on updating the law. This book was designed specifically for teaching legal research to first-year law students, but it has also been successful with upper-level classes. Moreover, practitioners, paralegals, librarians, college students, and even laypeople will find it a useful introduction to Oregon legal sources.