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Welcome
Welcome to the Henry Whittemore Library Health Law LibGuide! Please feel free to contact a librarian at any time during your research process.
Primary and Secondary Sources in Legal Research
Legal research can include the use of both primary and secondary sources. Primary sources are official pronouncements of governmental lawmakers. Examples of primary sources include court decisions, statutes, and regulations that influence legal doctrine. Secondary sources are works that discuss, explain, or analyze legal doctrine, but are not actual laws. Examples of secondary sources include: treatises, hornbooks, restatements and practice manuals.
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Legal Primary Sources |
Legal Secondary Sources |
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Court decisions |
Treatises |
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Statutes |
Hornbooks |
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Regulations that form the basis of legal doctrine |
Restatements |
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Practice manuals |
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Law reviews from academic journals |
How to Login if You are Off-Campus
FSU's Whittemore Library requires that users who are off-campus authenticate through Blackboard. Blackboard accounts are set up through Blackboard, not the library, so while we will help as much as possible to get you onto our databases from off-campus, sometimes we may have to refer you back to Blackboard or Information Technology to get your account set-up properly. Below we have included links for how to format the username/password to get onto the library databases as well as IT Services information.
Subject Librarian |
Contact Info Debbie Percher Reference Librarian Framingham State University 100 State Street PO Box 9101 Whittemore Library 117 Framingham, MA 01701-9101 Tel: 508-626-4654 Fax: 508-626-4047 IM: fscrefdesk Send Email Links: Profile & Guides |

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