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Legal Research Essentials
Legal Research Essentials guides you through everything you should know about legal research with the University of Queensland Library. Read chapters on:
- the legal research process
- using the UQ Law Library
- finding secondary resources
- case law
- legislation
- referencing using AGLC4.
Dictionaries
Legal dictionaries for Australian law:
See the Comparative and Foreign Law or International Law guides for more options.
Encyclopaedias
- Halsbury's Laws of AustraliaChapter 240 deals with intellectual property law.
- Laws of AustraliaChapter 23 deals with intellectual property law.
- Corpus Juris Secundum (United States)See chapter on copyright and intellectual property; patents; and trade marks, trade names, and unfair competition.
- Halsbury's Laws of EnglandVolume 23 deals with copyright law, volume 79 deals with patents and registered designs, volume 97A deals with trade marks and trade names.
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