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Current Legal Research in the Philippines

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 February 2019

Myrna S. Feliciano
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Legal research traditionally has been concerned with the development or elaboration of legal doctrines, and the raw materials of such research have been statutes, administrative regulations and rulings, and court decisions. This type of research is termed as doctrinal research. Characteristically, a legal scholar undertaking doctrinal research takes one or more legal propositions as a starting point and focus of his study. Research then takes place in the law library, where the scholar tries to locate all relevant statutes, cases and all discussions of his proposition found in encyclopedias, textbooks, treatises, and legal periodicals. If the legal concept is taken from a statute, his sources would necessarily include the statute, its legislative history and, if possible, comparable statutes in other jurisdictions. He then analyzes his readings, formulates his conclusions and writes up his study in the form of a memorandum, a brief, a periodical article or a treatise.

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International Journal of Law Libraries , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , June 1979 , pp. 229 - 240
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Copyright © 1979 International Association of Law Libraries. 

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