Reference Research Guide - Political Science: Courts

Location In Stacks

Range Subject
K1 - K7720 Law: General
KD51 - KD9500 Law of the United Kingdom and Ireland
KE1 - KE9450 Law of Canada
KF1 - KF9827 Federal Law (U.S.) & Collective State Law
KFA - KFW Individual States Law (KFL: Louisiana)
KFX0 - KFX999 Individual Cities Law
KG0 - KG999 Latin American Law
KH0 - KH999 South American Law
KJ2 - KKZ European Law

Videos

Location Title
KF224.SE M64 2002 Monkey Trial: An All-Out Duel Between Science & Religion
KF8972.Z9 J87 1997 Juries On Trial
KF8979 .T73 1995 Trial Consultants: Stacking Juries or Keeping Trials Fair?
KF9665 .P53 1994 Plea Bargains, Dealing For Justice
KFC10.3 .J8 1995 Jury Reform — Is It About Time?

Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, etc.

Location Title
KF154 .A44 American Justice (3 vols.)
KF154 .O96 2002 Oxford Companion to American Law
KF156 .B53 1990 Black's Law Dictionary
KF508 .G85 1995 Guide to the Louisiana Judiciary
KF889.3 .R87 2002 E-Business Legal Handbook (2 vols.)
KF2995 .F53 1997 Copyright Handbook
KF4530 .M33 1998 State Constitutions of the United States
KF4546.A1 .R4 1987 Constitution of the U.S., Guide and Bibliography
KF4548 .O97 1999 Oxford Guide to the U.S. Supreme Court Decisions
KF4744 .C62 1997 Complete Bill of Rights: Drafts, Debates, Sources
KFL401 .A367 1994 Constitution of the State of Louisiana of 1974

Metasites

All Law Network • http://www.alllaw.com/

Findlaw • http://www.findlaw.com/

Hieros Gamos Legal Research Center • http://www.hg.org/

U.S. LawRunner Research • http://www.ilrg.com/gov.html

WWW Virtual Law Library • http://www.law.indiana.edu/v-lib/

Federal Court Decisions • http://www.law.emory.edu/FEDCTS/

Current USSC Decisions • http://www.usscplus.com/current/

Judicial Branch Resources • http://www.gpoaccess.gov/judicial.html

Legal Information Institute • http://www.law.cornell.edu/

Law Library of Congress Guide to Law Online • http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/uslists.html

ABA Caseload Statistics Research • http://www.abanet.org/marketresearch/resource.html#CourtsCaseloadStatistics

Law.com Legal News & Information • http://www.law.com/index.shtml

Municipal Codes • http://www.municode.com/resources/online_codes.asp

Villanova Legal Express • http://vls.law.villanova.edu/library/express/

State Legal Sources on the Web • http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/statelaw.html

United States Court Systems • http://www.lib.auburn.edu/socsci/docs/uscourts.html

Basic Legal Citation • http://www.law.cornell.edu/citation/

LawCrawler: Legal Web & Databases • http://lawcrawler.findlaw.com/

Famous Trials • http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/ftrials.htm

Guide to Law Online • http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/index.html

Law Engine • http://www.thelawengine.com/main.htm

Meta-Index for U.S. Legal Research • http://gsulaw.gsu.edu/metaindex/

Oyez: US Supreme Court Multimedia Site • http://www.oyez.org/oyez/frontpage

US Courts • http://www.uscourts.gov/

WashLaw Web: State/Circuit Courts • http://www.washlaw.edu/

International Law Sites

Constitution Finder (Global) • http://confinder.richmond.edu/

Foreign & Comparative Law • http://www.law.duke.edu/lib/researchguides/foreign.html

Laws of Other Nations LawGuru • http://www.lawguru.com/ilawlib/52.htm

Global LawRunner • http://www.ilrg.com/nations

Global Legal Information Network • http://www.glin.gov/

Foreign Law: Legal Research Resource on the Internet • http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/~llou/foreignlaw.html

International Court of Justice, The Hague • http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/library/RESOURCES/International_Resources/icj/

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E-Journals

Federal Registerhttp://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/index.html

Legal Timeshttp://www.law.com/jsp/dc/index.jsp

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Lawhttp://www.law.upenn.edu/conlaw/

Law Library of Congress: Law Reviews Online (free) • http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/lawreviews.html

Law Journals on the Nethttp://www.law.cornell.edu/journals.html

Contents Pages from Law Reviews (Citation only) • http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/tallons/content_search.html

HG.org Law Journalshttp://www.hg.org/journals.html

E-Texts

U.S. Constitution Annotatedhttp://www.gpoaccess.gov/constitution/index.html

Duhaime’s Law Dictionaryhttp://www.duhaime.org/dictionary/diction.aspx

Glossary of Legal Termshttp://www.id.uscourts.gov/glossary.htm

Legal Lexicon’s Lyceumhttp://lectlaw.com//def.htm

Merriam Webster's Dictionary of Law 2001http://research.lawyers.com/glossary/

Historic Court Decisionshttp://www.lectlaw.com/tcas.htm

Historic Legal Documentshttp://www.lectlaw.com/this.htm

Famous Trials through Historyhttp://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/ftrials.htm

Online Research

Academic Search Premier • http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=web&defaultdb=aph

Lexis-Nexis / Academic Universe • http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/

Political Science Annual Reviews • http://polisci.annualreviews.org/

Periodical Abstracts Research II • http://www.il.proquest.com/pqdauto

Westlaw Campus • http://www.westlaw.com/signon/default.wl?sp=centenary-2000&rs=imp1.0&vr=1.0&cbhf=none

Wilson SelectPlus • http://ezproxy.centenary.edu:2048/login?url=http://newfirstsearch.oclc.org/FSIPhttp://newfirstsearch.oclc.org/FSIP

Associations

Alliance for Justice • http://www.afj.org/

American Bar Association Legal Technology Resource Center • http://www.abanet.org/tech/ltrc/lawlink/home.html

American Society of International Law • http://www.asil.org/spgbd.htm

Education Law Association • http://www.educationlaw.org/links.htm

Federal Bar Association • http://www.fedbar.org/relatedlinks.html

Law Society • http://members.tripod.com/~Law_Society_Execs/research.html

South West Association of Pre-Law Advisors • http://www.swapla.org/

World Jurist Association http://www.worldjurist.org/]