Chapter 3: The Question Method of Legal Research

Take a finished legal paragraph apart into the four research questions that built it, then watch those same questions become a synthesis table and an annotated outline — one color tying each question to its place in every form.

Work a real Arizona notice-of-claim problem through the question → answer → better-question cycle, logging every move in a research log.

Three chains as transit lines — with a twist: the Notice and Duty Lines leave the Elements station on shared rails, because one chain presupposes the other, and split only where they genuinely diverge. Ride every line, face the corridor choice, and watch the intersection chart fill: three fictional cases, nine stations, every column crossing lines.

Build a chain of research questions forward from a fact pattern, then reverse-engineer the questions behind a finished analysis.

Name the type of fourteen research questions — definitional, exploratory, focusing, or application — then pick the source family each one points to. The feedback explains the tell in every question's wording.