Interdisciplinary Research in Law: Do you have enough facts to build an argument?

Research problem 1 - You are the leader of a citizens' rights group, and you are concerned about pollution of local waterways. Preparing for litigation you need to gather information about the water quality and known polluters (i.e., those entities that have obtained pollution permits) and cross-reference this data with health outcomes.) What is your strategy?

1. Clarify your question (break it into smaller concepts, if necessary) 2. Do you need contextual information? (literature search) 3. Can you go for the primary source? Where do you start? What is your jurisdiction?

More preliminary meta-research domestic (US) datasets 1.Free of charge databases? 2. Fee-based databases? How do you choose? Who publishes them? Where can you access them?

Let’s research:

Research problem 2 - You provide in-house counsel services to a company which produces agricultural products. You would like to identify markets that would be good targets for growing your exports. You are also interested in identifying markets with which we have preferential or regional trading agreements as well as any regulations in place governing trade with particular markets.

Preliminary meta-research international datasets 1.Free of charge databases? 2. Fee-based databases? How do you choose? Who publishes them? Where can you access them?

Let’s research:

Questions?