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Research: Read With A Context or Question
Research: Read With A Context or Question
1. Planning
Start by knowing what you don’t know
Understand the research question
It must say something
Must be easily identifiable
Identify key legal concepts and keywords
Think about scope and coverage
Build a research skeleton
2. Identify
Identify the most relevant resources types:
Primary and secondary
o Primary : hard law
o Secondary: peer reviewed law journals, encyclopedias,
commentary, bibliography
Make sure that the primary materials are still good law
Secondary sources are a great place to start when undertaking research in a
topic you are unfamiliar with. It provides overview and different points of
view on topics to assist you in ascerting the relevant legislation and
significant cases on the topic
3. Identify- secondary sources
(i) consult bibliographies, legal dictionaries and encyclopedias.
o Bibliographies contain useful list of books and journals, journal articles
and key primary sources on a range of topic
o Legal dictionaries provide authoritative and often detailed definition
and place terms in their legal context
o Legal encyclopedias provide succinct summaries on the current state
of the law
(ii) textbooks : a useful point of references textbooks contextualize legal
topics, provide background on, and examine specific areas of law. ALWAYS
READ WITH A CONTEXT OR QUESTION.
(iii) commentary services : commentaries provide up to date and thorough
commentary on an area of law and often include legislation, rules, practice
direction and case law
(iv) journals and journal article : current scholary opinion and analysis of
specific aspects of your topic can be found
4. locate-Database
JDIH ( Jaringan Dokumentasi dan Informasi Hukum) masing-masing
kementrian
www.parlemen.net
www.konstitusi.org
LexisNexis
Westlaw
Getting The Deal Through
OECD-ilibrary.org/papers
CIA World factbook
5. Locate-Secondary Resources
Which journal is it published in?
o If you have the abbreviation, go to “Cardiff index to legal
abbreviations” and you can search by abbreviation.
o JuriGlobe
o GlobaLex
6. Locate-Advanced Google-Basic Search Operators
Exact phrase search- use “ “ around your search terms
Similar terms – use “~” e.g ~Plane. Search orm terms wirh simiiar meanings
OR : employment law OR labour law. Looks for articles that have either one
phrase in them or the other
(minus sign) : put the minus sign before the word you want to exclude e.g
“law reform commission
7. Locate- Google Advance Search
Advanaced search features isn’t available on google homepage
www.google.com/advanced _search
8. Evaluate
Record details of each papers systematically
Check information for:
o Authority : check the authors and publishers credentials
o Reliability : search for peer-reviewed resources , but keep in mind that
not everything that is published is credible
o Relevances : scan the abstract quickly to establish relevancy
o Currency : look for publication date and updates
o Objectivity : look at the justification of findings
o Accuracy : check the facts and references
o Imoact : check the citation count, even though it’s not a reliable
measures, it can be an indicator
9. Documents
Keep a record of :
o Search terms
o Search strategies
o Database searched
o The number of results
This helps to :
o Identify the most relevan terms
o Reduces duplication of searches in the same databases.
o Record full bibliographic details and :
What you found
When you found
Where you found it
10. Documents-File management
Folders and file naming :
o Create a logical folder structure
o Avoid special characters “!@#$%^&”
o Avoid vague or generic file names
o Name file consistently
Examples : Chapter_1_Vo1_2018
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