Videos: How To Do Legal Research And Tax Research

How To Do Legal Research
Learn or review how to do effective legal research. Indiana University law librarian Ashley Ahlbrand walks through the steps involved in the legal research process.

How To Do Tax Research
This video covers both legal research generally & variations specific to tax. Indiana University law librarian Ashley Ahlbrand walks through the steps involved in doing effective tax law research. The video also covers primary vs. secondary sources and tax-specific sources.

Sources of Tax Authority
This video covers sources of tax law, explaining what the main sources of tax authority are and where to find them, as well as sources of tax news. Indiana University law librarian Ashley Ahlbrand covers primary vs. secondary authority, precedential vs. persuasive authority, and sources of "substantial authority" for purposes of the substantial understatement penalty.

TaxProf Blog coverage of Break Into Tax videos:

• Christians And Lederman Start YouTube Series Break Into Tax (BiT) (Feb. 16, 2021)
• Christians & Lederman: Should You Get A Tax LLM? (Feb. 24, 2021)
• Christians & Lederman: An Important Tax Tip & #WhyTakeTax? (Apr. 1, 2021)
• Lederman & Christians: Last-Minute Exam Prep (Apr. 24, 2021)
• Lederman & Christians: Tax Papers Unlocked — The Elevator Pitch (May 19, 2021)
• Lederman & Christians: An Overview Of U.S. Federal Tax Controversies (June 21, 2021)
• Lederman & Christians: Tax Papers Unlocked — Rita de la Feria (July 9, 2021)
• Christians & Lederman: How To Read A Tax Statute (July 24, 2021)
• Lederman & Christians: Tax Papers Unlocked — Dan Shaviro (Aug. 2, 2021)
• Christians & Lederman: Tax Careers — The Office Of Chief Counsel And The IRS (Aug. 14, 2021)
• Lederman & Christians: Tax Papers Unlocked — Jon Choi (Aug. 21, 2021)
• Christians & Lederman Launch Season 2 of Break Into Tax (Sept. 18, 2021)
• Lederman & Bearer-Friend: Break Into Legal Academia (Sept. 25, 2021)
• Break Into Tax: Friday The 15th (Oct. 11, 2021)
• Break Into Tax: Talking Tax Careers With The Tax Chick (Oct. 16, 2021)
• Break Into Tax: Tax Papers Unlocked — Victoria Haneman (Oct. 23, 2021)
• Break Into Tax: Exam Tips (Nov. 6, 2021)
• Break Into Tax: Introduction To Deductions (Nov. 20, 2021)
• Break Into Tax: Capital Gains & Losses — An Introduction (Nov. 27, 2021)
• Break Into Tax: The Limitation On Capital Losses (Dec. 4, 2021)
• Break Into Tax: The Capital Gains Preference (Dec. 11, 2021)
• Break Into Tax: The Federal Income Tax Treatment of Debt (Dec. 18, 2021)
• Videos: How To Do Legal Research And Tax Research (Jan. 22, 2022)