Subject
Guide: Legal Resources
INDEXES | REFERENCE
WORKS | OTHER PRINTED
WORKS |
GOVERNMENT SOURCES |
WEB
LINKS | PERIODICALS
This page is intended to introduce a few select resources,
both on the Web and in the Smith Library Center print
collection, that are particularly useful for the
study of law.
INDEXES
Index
to Legal Periodicals and Books
A database of legal literature including law reviews, legal
news, periodicals and selected books. Although this source
does not include the full-text of most articles, LexisNexis
Academic can be used to obtain copies of the referenced article.
Legal
Collection (Ebscohost)
The EBSCOhost Legal Collection covers more than 250 scholarly
peer-reviewed journals in law and related fields. It includes
research-oriented journals from the social sciences and traditional
law review journals. Topics include criminal justice, labor
and human resources law, environmental law, and more. Includes
information from 1965 to the present.PDF, or scanned-in-color.
Full text information in this database dates as far back as
1965.
LexisNexis Academic (Legal Research)
LEXIS/NEXIS Academic is an online service composed of legal, general and international news, reference, and business sources. Statutes, regulations and cases, can be accessed using LexisNexis. The service is particularly useful to retrieve United States Court cases. Additionally, the service includes full-text law review and legal news articles.
REFERENCE
WORKS
To find printed reference material relevant to your topic
start with the library's Voyager catalog. Do a Reference Materials
search using keywords to describe your topic. You can also
check the library's Web pages for other subject guides for
specific topics to find other suggested sources.
Below are a few titles to get you started. To find call
number and location information, search the Voyager catalog.
Black's Law Dictionary
REFERENCE, 1st floor 340.03 B561b
The preeminent dictionary of English and American law, ancient and modern.
Legal Systems of the World: A Political, Social, and Cultural Encyclopedia
REFERENCE, 1st floor 340.03 L522
Oxford
Reference Online: Law
The Oxford Companion to American Law, A Dictionary of Law, The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States, and the Oxford Guide to United States Supreme Court Decisions.
West's Encyclopedia of American
Law
REFERENCE, 1st floor 348.73 W52
Contains over 4,000 entries devoted to terms, concepts,
events, movements, cases, and persons significant
to U.S. law.
OTHER
PRINTED WORKS
Below are a few titles from the library's
Main collection to get you started. To find call number and
location information, search the Voyager catalog.
The Supreme Court Reporter
345.4 Su76
Summaries of Supreme Court decisions since Oct. 1882.
United States Code Congressional
and Administrative News
345.2 Un3c 1965-1997
Selectively reprints legislative committee reports
for enacted legislation. Reports may be edited. Contains
references to other reports and dates of debate.
GOVERNMENT
SOURCES (Federal Resources)
CQ Weekly
A weekly source for information on Capitol Hill, legislative
news, and analysis. CQ Weekly on the Web includes access to
the full-text of all articles published since August, 1983.
FirstGov.gov
A gateway to online federal government information, and it
includes links to other government websites.
GPO Access
Is the website for the United States government publications.
THOMAS
Maintained by the Library of Congress, the service includes legislative information. Bill texts, bill summaries, public laws, roll call votes, committee reports, the Congressional Record and other legislative information
WEB LINKS
AllLaw
A searchable and comprehensive legal resources directory, including legal journals.
FindLaw
FindLaw has two portals, one for the legal professionals and
another one for the public. The legal portal provides access
to primary source materials, including federal and state statutes,
regulations and court cases, as well as a legal news library.
The public portal is organized topically (Divorce and Family
Law, Employee Rights, etc.). For each topic, articles with
general information is provided.
Hieros Gamos
The site provides links to United States law, international law, legal and bar associations,
law schools and graduate schools.
Jurist Legal News
and Research
An online newspaper published by the University of Pittsburg
School of Law.
Legal Information Institute (LII)
Maintained by the Cornell Law School. LII includes federal
and state full-text primary source materials, including constitutions,
statutes, regulations, United States Supreme Court opinions,
United States Court of Appeals opinions, and state court opinions.
Covers uniform codes, such as the Uniform Commerical Code
and Uniform Probate Code.
Nolo
Nolo publishes legal guides for non-practitioners.
Nolo.com Glossary
A useful legal dictionary that can be browsed by topic or searched for specific words.
Texas Legislative Council: Internet Resources
The staff of the Legislative Council creates and maintains a number of web sites to provide information to the Texas Legislature, including the Texas statutes, Texas legislation, Texas constitution, Texas redistricting information, Texas events, etc.
WashLaw
Maintained by the Washburn School of Law Library. Find hundreds of links to law resources, law libraries, law schools, law library catalogs, legal research, Texas state law and decisions, and more.
PERIODICALS
To find citations or online full-text
for articles in periodicals on your
topic, try the resources listed above
under Indexes.
To find holdings and location information for specific periodicals
titles (both print and online), search the Voyager
catalog.
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