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PLC-3020 v1

Week 2 Resources

View only the tutorials on case legal citations and statutory citations. These tutorials explain in plain language the Bluebook format for legal citations to court cases and statutes.

Legal Research, Analysis and Writing

William H. Putnam & Jennifer R. Albright, Legal Research, Analysis and Writing (4th ed. 2019).

Read Chapter 2, which introduces you to the four-step approach to legal analysis, which entails identification of the legal issue and applicable rule of law, analysis, or application of the rule to the facts and conclusion based on that analysis. The acronym for this analytical framework is IRAC.

The link to this Redshelf book is located in your course in the Getting Started module.