Need help with a term paper

I want to apologize in advance if this isn't quite the right spot for this kind of discussion, though I did try posting it over in the student lounge section and didn't really get much of a response there.
I’m looking for some insight from anyone who has navigated law school, specifically regarding how you handle Latin legal maxims when you're drafting papers—whether you should provide a literal translation in your footnotes or just offer a plain English explanation of the concept if you haven't already defined it in the main body of your text. Also, I was wondering about the standard protocol for citing statutes, specifically whether you always list the Federal Register as your primary source in your citations.
If the moderators wouldn't mind letting this thread stay up until tomorrow morning, I would really appreciate it since I'm working against a bit of a deadline with these questions.
Thanks so much for the help!

You should probably just shoot a message over to Dr. Smith; I suspect he’s likely to have some insight into this particular situation.

Honestly, you don't even need to bother translating Latin phrases. They aren't really part of the main body of the text anyway; they just sit there tucked away in parentheses... plus, since the seminar is being led by a professor from the law department, they'll know what they're looking at.
And look, regardless of where you're pulling a statute from, if the source cited it from an unofficial gazette, I don't see why it's such a big deal to just list the number and the year...

Bradley Fisher3 said:I want to apologize in advance if this isn't quite the right spot for this kind of discussion, though I did try posting it over in the student lounge section and didn't really get much of a response there.
I’m looking for some insight from anyone who has navigated law school, specifically regarding how you handle Latin legal maxims when you're drafting papers—whether you should provide a literal translation in your footnotes or just offer a plain English explanation of the concept if you haven't already defined it in the main body of your text. Also, I was wondering about the standard protocol for citing statutes, specifically whether you always list the Federal Register as your primary source in your citations.
If the moderators wouldn't mind letting this thread stay up until tomorrow morning, I would really appreciate it since I'm working against a bit of a deadline with these questions.
Thanks so much for the help!

prof. Smith released some guidelines for writing term papers and theses, and he shared them for free.

Maybe just ask around at the university.

I believe this might be what you're looking for:
http://www.nasciturus.com/skripte-i-...dova/index.php

Hey everyone, thanks so much for the help, and a huge shoutout to Brandon Price3 specifically for sending over that link.

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