Taking a process-oriented approach, Oregon Legal Research explains how to conduct research in Oregon cases, statutes, legislative history, constitutional law, and administrative law. Additional chapters describe the research process, secondary sources and practice guides, and updating research results. Print and online research techniques are integrated throughout the book. An appendix reviews citation to legal sources under Oregon court rules, the ALWD Manual, and the Bluebook.

Oregon Legal Research was designed specifically for teaching legal research to first-year law students. Others who will find it helpful include practitioners, paralegals, librarians, college students, and even laypeople. It is clearly written, making even complex ideas accessible.

Outlines of the research process and short excerpts from Oregon resources make the book easy to use. Web addresses point researchers to the many sources for finding free Oregon legal material online.

Concise explanations of resources needed for researching federal law and the law of other states are provided throughout. Thus, Oregon Legal Research can be used as a stand-alone text or in conjunction with a research text concentrating on federal law.

The primary difference between this edition and the first is the greater integration of online resources. Each chapter now concentrates on the media most likely to be helpful for a particular resource. Thus, updating is presented almost exclusively through online citators, while secondary sources are still covered primarily in print. Recognizing that students are becoming more visual, this edition includes more sample pages and screen shots. Discussion of legal analysis is included as a crucial element in legal research, as in the first edition, but that discussion is still limited because the book’s main focus is the process of performing research.