Legal Studies 11 : Court Case Investigation: Home

This guide is designed to support students undertaking legal studies and contribute to developing research
skills in Australian law schools.
Legal Research Skills: An Australian Law Guide is organised into five parts:
• Part 1: Research Skills introduces the concept of legal research, identifies the key sources of legal
information, and the importance of researching strategically.
• Part 2: Case Law provides an introduction on how to locate cases by citation or topic, and judge a
case’s reliability.
• Part 3: Legislation helps students learn about the parliamentary process, how to find legislation
and the materials used for statutory interpretation.
• Part 4: Secondary Sources focuses on the role of secondary sources in legal research.
• Part 5: Legal Research and Artificial Intelligence (AI) focuses specifically on the responsible use
of generative AI tools for legal research.

See an example of acceptable use of AI to generate background information and how to create a citation for AI in your Bibliography.