Research Assistant Training and Support
Research Assistants Program
Along with individual work study faculty research positions, the law school has a program for training a cohort of research assistants (RA). Each year a new group of RAs are invited into the program based upon the student’s academic standing throughout his or her first year and the student’s expressed interest. The Legal Research Center provides training for the RAs toward the end of the 1L Spring semester as well as support on an individual basis for every RA throughout the student’s time as an RA.
RAs must apply for the program through the School of Law Office for JD Student Affairs, Contact: Assistant Dean for JD Student Affairs, Emily L. Scivoletto.
Spring RA Research Training Materials
- RA Training Overview: guidelines, forms, and procedures
- Using USD research tools
- Finding primary law
- Journal and article research
- Researching specific areas of law
- Watch the RA research training
