Handbooks

Handbooks, Practice Guides and Nutshells

Legal Research Handbooks

These handbooks and practice guides on Canadian legal research may be useful to the researcher:

• Legal Research Handbook (KE 250.M33x 2003)
• Legal Research and Writing (KE 250.T55x 2001)
• The Practical Guide to Canadian Legal Research (KE 250.C37 1996) (although somewhat dated, still very relevant)
• Legal Problem Solving: Reasoning, Research and Writing (KE 250.F58x 2001)
• Guide to Electronic Legal Research (KE 252.Z58 2002x)
• The Internet Handbook for Canadian Lawyers (Reference KE 252.J33x 2000)
• Techniques de reperage des sources documentaires du droit: Guide pratique (KE 250.L34x 2002)
• La recherche documentaire en droit (KEQ 140.L55x 2000)
• Statutes Compared: A U.S., Canada, Multinational Research Guide to Statutes by Subject (KF 1.S356 2001)
• Canadian Law: an Introduction (KE 444. B69x 2002)

In addition, the Nahum Gelber Law Library at McGill University has compiled an updated annotated bibliography on various Canadian legal research handbooks.

Nutshells

• Canada’s Constitutional Law in a Nutshell (KE 4219.2 F86x 2003)
• Canada’s Intellectual Property Law in a Nutshell (KE 2779.2 K73x 1998)

Citation Guide

See the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation (KE 259.C36x).

Other Secondary Sources

• Treatises
• Directories
• Encyclopedias
• Digests
• Dictionaries
• Indexes
• Associations
• Other Online Research Guides
• Helpful Links and Canadian search engines

Resources

See Also

Secondary Sources