Legal Research Works for Non-Law Students

Increasingly now non-law students - those majoring in the social sciences - want to learn more about legal research. They hear law talked about at every level in and out of the university, especially in popular culture where "mouthpiece" stories are second in prevalence only to cop stories. Non-law students discover that professors giver higher grades to term papers incorporating legal issues. Such papers are more substantial as are speeches, debates, and class participation that include discussion of the law. This article encourages libraries that can afford it to build a basic law collection, and once in place, gives examples of how to teach the rudiments of law in an interesting way.