Food and Drug Law

• DO find proper LEGAL SUPPORT for your paper.  Legal support can come from:
  • Law review articles
  • Legal treatises
  • Primary sources of law: Cases, statutes, regulations, agency materials, constitutions.

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.

• DO consult legal treatises (books), especially for background information on the law.
   
• DO consult scholarly articles from other disciplines, such as medicine, agriculture, food science etc.
   
• DO search legislative history documents, especially if your paper revolves around a statute or sentencing guidelines.  Even if it does not, you can often find hearings containing expert testimony on many issues.