This guide will help explain why you should generally start your legal research with secondary resources, which to use for your research task, and how to use them effectively.
There are also state enyclopedias. In Georgia we have Georgia Jurisprudence.
Georgia Jurisprudence (Ga. Jur.), a West publication, is Georgia’s state-specific encyclopedia.
Unlike most other encyclopedias, the topics in Ga. Jur. are not arranged alphabetically. Instead, each topic has its own volume; several of the topics take up more than one volume.
Within the commentary of each topic, Ga. Jur. includes statutory, regulatory, and case law. Ample footnotes guide you to the primary sources.
For this reason, finding your issue addressed in Ga. Jur. gives you a big step forward in your research.
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