THE RESULTS OF RESEARCH in the legal aspects of education have been summarized in previous issues of the Review. In contrast to such summaries the present chapter is concerned with the methods and materials of legal study and refers to the summaries of studies only as examples of available materials. Research methods used in the field of educational law were discussed in the Review for February 1934 by Edwards (111). Treatments of the same subject have been published elsewhere by Alexander (97), Chambers (100), Coffey (106), Cyr and Cunin (108), Edwards (112), and Good, Barr, and Scates (114). All these have presented useful outlines of the classifications of law, the sources of school law, and the indexes and other bibliographic aids available in law libraries. It would be out of place here to reproduce any such comprehensive guides. Instead, a fivefold task is undertaken: (a) to summarize some new approaches and uses of legal research in education; (b) to note some recent changes and additions among the legal bibliographic aids; (c) to offer certain suggestions regarding the analysis and digesting of legal materials; (d) to discuss needed research and the organization of facilities and personnel therefor; and (e) to present a synthesis of the place of legal research in education.
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M. M. Chambers (1939) studied this question.