legal-research-guide
Legal research methods, case law analysis, and compliance tools
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill legal-research-guide --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Legal Research Guide Conduct systematic legal research across jurisdictions, analyze case law, navigate statutory frameworks, and use computational legal tools for academic and practice-oriented research. ## Legal Research Frameworks ### IRAC Method The standard analytical framework for legal reasoning: | Step | Description | Example | |------|-------------|---------| | **Issue** | Identify the legal question | "Does web scraping of public data constitute a CFAA violation?" | | **Rule** | State the applicable legal rule | "The CFAA prohibits accessing a computer 'without authorization' or 'exceeding authorized access'" | | **Application** | Apply the rule to the facts | "In hiQ v. LinkedIn, the 9th Circuit held that scraping publicly available data does not violate the CFAA..." | | **Conclusion** | State the legal conclusion | "Therefore, scraping publicly available academic data likely does not violate the CFAA, though terms-of-service issues remain." | ### CREAC Method (For Academic Legal Writing) ``` C - Conclusion (state your thesis) R - Rule (present the legal rule with authority) E - Explanation (analyze how courts have interpreted the rule) A - Application (apply the rule
- Legal Research Frameworks
- IRAC Method
- CREAC Method (For Academic Legal Writing)
- Legal Research Databases
- Primary Sources
- Secondary Sources
- Citation Systems
- Bluebook (US Standard)
- OSCOLA (UK/Oxford Standard)
- Computational Legal Research
- Case Law Analysis with Python
- Citation Network Analysis
- Statutory Text Analysis
- Research Areas in Law
What does the legal-research-guide skill do?
Legal research methods, case law analysis, and compliance tools
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill legal-research-guide --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, a repository with 3,244 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
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