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  • How to search legal journal indexes?

    How to search legal journal indexes? The recommended method for finding law journal articles is to use an index. Indexes allow searching by author, title, subject, and keyword. Many also include abstracts of articles, and online indexes usually link to the full-text of selected articles. Coverage in legal journal indexes is more comprehensive, both in…

  • Authors of Legal Dictionaries

    Authors of Law Dictionaries Albericus de Rosate, 1290-1360: Albericus’s Dictionarium Area: (Roman/Canon Law, 1581) Albericus was “born in Rosciate, near Bergamo, around 1290. He studied in Padua under Oldradus da Ponte and Riccardus Malumbra. He studied also under Ranieri di Forlì and received advice and help from Bartolo da Sassoferrato. In the second decade of…

  • Legal Research

    Legal research is the investigation of information necessary to support legal decision-making, when applied by judges, or the search for authority that can be applied to a given set of facts and issues, when practiced by a researcher. International Legal Research Resources Encyclopedias, […]

  • Legal Encyclopedias

    Legal encyclopedias provide (generally) a brief, integrated statement of the law. They pull together an enormous body of legal literature, definitions, rules, and practice points derived mainly from case law. Indexes and cross-references are provided. Sections may be written by experts or by […]

  • Legal Treatises

    Introduction The term treatise, in the Common law systems, usually refers to an in-depth scholarly work on a particular subject area. As law encyclopedias, Restatements of the Law, American Law Reports and law journal articles, legal treatises are […]

  • American Journal of Comparative Law

    The American Journal of Comparative Law Introduction “The American Journal of Comparative Law is published by the American Society of Comparative Law. American Society of Comparative Law The first officers of the Society, elected in 1951, reflected the significance of the nascent organization to the emerging fields of comparative and foreign law and private international…

  • Google Scholar Legal Content

    Google Scholar Legal Content Note: while many of the following features are not currently available in Google Scholar, we mantain this entry for historical and intellectual grounds. Google Scholar Legal Content Star Paginator See below information about: Google wrote an extension for Google Chrome that adds inline star pagination “Cited by” command, and Inline star…

  • List of Legal Research Entries

    List of Legal Research Entries A selection of Entries This is not a comprehensive list of Legal Research entries, since new entries are added often on a weekly basis. A more comprehensive list may be obtained in the legal research label. A Concise Encyclopedia of the United Nations (legal research) A Selection of Legal Maxims…

  • List of Legal Research Entries

    List of Legal Research Entries A selection of Entries This is not a comprehensive list of Legal Research entries, since new entries are added often on a weekly basis. A more comprehensive list may be obtained in the legal research label. A Concise Encyclopedia of the United Nations (legal research) A Selection of Legal Maxims…

  • List of Legal Databases

    List of Legal Databases Databases A-Z List 19th Century Masterfile Publisher of this legal database: Paratext Coverage +/- : 1786 – 1937Contains numerous indexes, some with links to full-text. Use article finder or one of the other options (Google Book Search, Hathi trust) to locate full-text of citations, online or in print, or request via…

  • A-Z List of Law Search Suggestions

    A-Z List of Law Search Suggestions law + a law and order svu law and order law abiding citizen law and order criminal intent law and order svu episodes law and order svu season 15 law and order svu episode guide law and order svu season 14 law and order cast law and order svu…

  • Boolean and Free-text Searching for Legal Research

    Boolean and Free-text Searching for Legal Research Richard Delgado and Jean Stefanic, in “Why Do We Tell the Same Stories?: Law Reform, Critical Librarianship, and the Triple Helix Dilemma”(42 Stan. L. Rev. 207, 214 (1989)), wrote that “Some scholars note that the inability of lawyers to follow the development of the law either nationally or…

  • Moys Classification and Thesaurus for Legal Materials

    Moys Classification and Thesaurus for Legal Materials The Moys Classification Scheme is a system of library classification for legal materials. It was designed by Betty Moys and first published in 1968. It is used primarily in law libraries in many common law jurisdictions such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Schedule The…

  • Cataloging for legal materials

    Cataloging of law materials Most libraries use LC (Library of Congress) or DDC ( Dewey Decimal Classification ). Some law libraries use other classifications in conjunction with these. Like a library serving a medical school may not use LCC’s R (Medicine) but rather NLM’s (National Library of Medicine) W and late Qs, legal Canadian libraries…

  • Lexis’ Case Search

    Lexis ‘ Case Search UK and European Digest CaseSearch is an online case citator. It allows you to track the history of a case, finding out how the decision has been applied in subsequent cases. It is updated daily and provides procedural history, Annotations , keywords and summaries. Subsequent judicial consideration of a case is…