The objectives for Week 1 are for students to:
Immigration Acts/Federal Acts
- Be familiar with the Immigration and Nationality Act
- Understand how to find parallel citations for immigration statutes/acts when you know either the USC section or the INA section
- Understand how to use a popular name table to find where a section of a public law is codified in the United States Code
- Understand how federal acts are codified into the United States Code
Terms and Connectors Searching Review
- Understand that a concept can be expressed in a variety of different ways (with different keywords)
- Understand how to choose keywords
- Run searches using AND, OR, and proximity connectors
- Understand singular/plural and truncation rules
Statutes Review
- Efficiently retrieve statutes using a variety of methods (index, table of contents, searching)
- Differentiate between annotated and unannotated codes
- Understand how annotated codes are one-stop research shopping because they provide cases that interpret that statute and secondary sources that explain it
