Moot Court Research Help

Moot Court Website: National First Amendment Moot Court Competition & past years competitors' briefs.

Advisor:  Rosemary Daly

All legal research should start with an analysis of the legal issues. Read your record to find out:

• what issues are involved;
• what legal principles you need to learn more about; and
• what major cases the lower court relied upon.

Once you have read your record:

• gather any legal materials mentioned in the record;
• read the cases, statutes, regulations, and other legal precedent and note additional citations to other materials;
• Keycite and/or Shepardize all legal material to check status and to find additional pertinent resources; and
• look for briefs of any underlying cases to see how issues were argued in the court below.

Links to more web guides that contain lists of First Amendment sources.