Janet Sinder
Director of Library and Associate Professor of Law
Areas of Expertise
Legal Research
Education
A.B., Cornell University
J.D., University of Michigan Law School
M.S., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Advanced Legal Research
Prerequisites: Students may not enroll in this course until they have completed all Required Courses.
The aim of this course is to present an in-depth view of legal research. Students will study the tools of legal research, research techniques and strategies, advanced legal and relevant non-legal research topics, and the developments in automated legal research. Among the subjects to be covered are: legislative history, administrative law, government documents, New York research, foreign and international law, secondary sources and selected substantive law areas, i.e., taxation, securities, or labor.