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    SECONDARY

    AUTHORITY/SOURCES
    EXPLAIN,
    DISCUSS OR
    COMMENT ON
    PRIMARY
    AUTHORITIES
    You can save a lot of time at
    the beginning of your
    research by locating a good
    secondary source
    Ideally, you would like a
    secondary source that is:

    - Authoritative and current

    -specific to your jurisdiction

    -detailed with regard to your


    topic
    Legal Dictionaries
    Advantages:
    -Provide Precise Terms of Legal Terms

    -Give context to legal terms of Article

    -may cite to cases, statutes, or secondary sources

    Disadvantage

    -Provide only limited information


    Commentaries or Books

    -focused on one particular subject


    area of law

     -usually provide a summary of the


    law, leading cases and the primary
    legislation in the area
    Legal Treatises/Dissertation
    Advantages:
    -Scholarly publications-very
    authoritative
    -In-depth Analysis of an area of the law

    - Citations to many key sources of primary law

    Disadvantage

    -Generally not cited

    -Not every treatise is available online


    Law Journals and Periodicals

    Legal periodicals contain articles about


    law and law-related subjects. 

    ex: The Judiciary in Developing Society


    (4 Phil. L.J. no.4, 882 (2010))
    Newspaper Articles

    •recent information

    •information on a specific topic

    •information on local issues

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