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An Interactive Companion to The Question Method of Legal Research

This site is a companion to the textbook, built to give you reps. The book teaches a method — write one research question, answer it, record the answer, let the answer produce the next question — and a method only becomes yours through practice. Each module here reinforces one piece of that cycle: some drop you into a live research problem, others drill a single skill the cycle depends on. They map onto the book chapter by chapter, and the URL tells you which is which.

How to use it

Work the modules alongside their chapters, not instead of them. The book's drills and demonstrations happen off-screen — on real databases, with your own Research Log open. What the modules add is immediate feedback: every wrong answer explains itself, and every module ends with a record you can download and turn in — your decisions and your reflections, generated on your own device. Several modules also carry a shared Research Log that follows you from one module to the next, the same way your log will follow you through practice.

Your data stays yours

This site makes zero external requests. No analytics, no trackers, no third-party fonts — nothing you do here is sent anywhere. Work you save lives only in your own browser, every module that saves anything says so and gives you a control to clear it, and the records you download exist only where you put them. That is not a technical accident; it is the design. The site is also built to meet WCAG accessibility standards, and every page is checked automatically. If something does not work for you — with a screen reader, a keyboard, anything — that is a bug, and I want to hear about it.

A note on the law in these pages

Some modules teach with real authorities; each one carries the date those authorities were verified. The law changes. Run the method — don't trust the module.

About the author

I'm Cas Laskowski — veteran, librarian, gamer, teacher, Latina, techie, comic book nerd, and empiricist in perpetual beta. I teach legal research at the University of Arizona College of Law, where I direct the Law Library Fellows Program, and I wrote The Question Method of Legal Research because the way experts actually research — one question at a time — is teachable, if we make every step explicit. You can find my writing and projects at firebrandlibrarian.com.

Found something?

A bug, a confusing module, an idea for a new one — tell me. These modules improve the same way research does: one good question at a time.

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