Legal Writing and Research: A Bibliography for Grad Students

Books focusing on doctrinal legal research:

• Contextualising legal research: a methodological guide / Sanne Taekema and Wibren van der Burg; Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024 (ebook)

• Effective legal research / John Knowles, Philip A. Thomas; 4th ed; Sweet & Maxwell/Thomson Reuters, 2016 (KB280 Kno 2016)

• Learning legal rules: a student's guide to legal method and reasoning / James Holland, Julian Webb; 9th ed; OUP, 2016 (KB20.5 Hol 2016) 

• Legal methods: how to work with legal arguments / Thomas M.J. Möllers, translated by Gill Merten; Nomos, 2020 (KB20.5 Mol 2020) 

• Legal reasoning, research, and writing for international graduate students / Nadia E. Nedzel; 5th ed; Wolters Kluwer, 2021 (KB280 Ned 2021)

• Legal skills: a complete guide / Sim Khadijah Binte Mohammed; Sweet & Maxwell, 2019 (KE5262 Sim 2019; ebook available) 
  Chapter 1: Legal Research, Analysis, and Strategy

• Legal skills / Emily Finch, Stefan Fafinski; 9th ed; OUP, 2023 (KB262 Fin 2023)

• Nemes and Coss' effective legal research / Bruce Bott, Ruth Talbot-Stokes; 8th ed; Lexis, 2021 (KB280 Bot 2021)

• Research Methods in Law / edited by Dawn Watkins and Mandy Burton, 2nd ed, 2018 (KB280 Res 2017; ebook available)

Books focusing on empirical legal research:

• Advanced introduction to empirical legal research / Herbert M. Kritzer; Edward Elgar, 2021 (KB280 Kri 2021) 

• An introduction to empirical legal research / Lee Epstein & Andrew D. Martin; OUP, 2014 (KB280 Eps 2014) 

• Empirical legal research: a primer / Kees van den Bos; Edward Elgar, 2020 (ebook) 

• Empirical legal research in action: reflections on methods and their applications / edited by Willem H. van Boom, Pieter Desmet and Peter Mascini; Edward Elgar, 2018 (ebook) 

• Interdisciplinarities: research process, method, and the body of law / edited by Didi Herman, Connal Parsley; Springer, 2022 (ebook) 

I. Library guides on legal research and methodology:

• 1L Research Guide (Berkeley Law Library)
• Law: Research (C J Koh Law Library) 
• Law Research and Writing Skills (Monash University Library)
• Legal Dissertation: Research and Writing Guide (Jerome Hall Law Library)
• Legal Method, Research and Writing (Australian National Institute of Management and Commerce Library)
• Legal Research Strategy: a Step-by-Step Guide to Legal Research for Beginners (Harvard Law School Library)

II. PPTs/Videos for lectures conducted by the Law Resource Team:

A) LC5337 Singapore Common Law of Contract

• Finding Legal Materials Online 

B) LC1016/LCJ 5016 Legal Analysis, Research & Communication

       i. Basic:

• Secondary Sources of Law: With a Focus on Singapore
• Singapore Legislation
• Singapore and UK Case Law

        ii. Intermediate:

• Legal Research (Singapore & UK)
• Researching Legislation (Singapore & UK)