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Food and Drug Law

Research Dos and Don'ts

  • DO find proper LEGAL SUPPORT for your paper.  Legal support can come from:

You may use news articles to support FACTUAL ASSERTIONS but not for legal support.  DON'T use news articles for legal support.  

  • DO conduct an interview, if desired, to obtain support for your paper.  The Bluebook has a citation format for interviews.
     
  • DO cite to reliable sources such as law review articles, primary sources of law, legal treatises, etc.  DON'T cite to Wikipedia or other web sources of questionable reliability.
     
  • DO start by searching  law review and journal articles.  Use Google Scholar, Lexis or Westlaw and SSRN.