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This guide is a starting point for students in the Master of Studies in Law at UNM who are researching in support of a scholarly paper. If you have any questions, please contact the Law Library reference desk here.

• Legal Research Process: Creating a research strategy that fits your question.
• Databases: A brief introduction to the most important research tools.
• Secondary Sources: Sources that comment on, summarize, and analyze the law. Invaluable to scholarly research.
• Statutes: Identifying relevant law from the legislative branch of government.
• Regulations & Administrative Decisions: Identifying relevant law from the executive branch of government.
• Cases: Identifying relevant law from the judicial branch of government.
• Citators: Reveals the subsequent treatment of the law you are relying upon.
• Legal Citation: Introduction to Bluebook, the citation format guide for the field of law.