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Category: Legal Education

  • Legal History

    Legal History “This abstraction called the Law,” Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., once observed, is “a magic mirror, [wherein] we see reflected, not only our own lives, but the lives of all men that have been!”1 Holmes believed that this “magic mirror” offered historians an opportunity to explore the social choices and moral imperatives of…

  • Law library

    Law library or Law Libraries A law library is a type of special library with a collection consisting primarily of materials for Legal Research and study, including case law, federal and state statutes, international legal agreements, treatises, reference works, legal periodicals, and […]

  • Law library

    Law library or Law Libraries A law library is a type of special library with a collection consisting primarily of materials for Legal Research and study, including case law, federal and state statutes, international legal agreements, treatises, reference works, legal periodicals, and […]

  • 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 […]

  • Depository Libraries

    Depository Libraries Further ReadingA concise encyclopedia of the United Nations (including Depository Libraries , H Volger, KA Annan -2010) The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations (TG Weiss – 2007) International Law: A Dictionary (including Depository Libraries , Boczek, Boleslaw Adam -2005)

  • Law Librarianship

    Law Librarianship Note: for related information, see the entries Law library and Legal Research in this legal Encyclopedia. Legal Materials To find articles on law librarianship, check out: The Legal Information Management Index, which I believe is the only index to cover the field exclusively and extensively. Legal Indexes — the Current Law Index (a/k/a…

  • Digital Library

    Digital Library in Legal Information RetrievalThe following is a basic concept of Digital Library in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Digital Library may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. Digital libraries are full-text […]

  • Jurisprudential Thought

    Jurisprudential Thought This entry covers the Schools of Jurisprudential Thought. Schools of Legal Theories Law has different meanings as well as different functions. Philosophers have considered issues of justice and law for centuries, and several different approaches, or schools of legal thought, have emerged. In this chapter, we will look at those different meanings and…

  • Student’s Guide to Congress

    Student’s Guide to Congress Editor: Bruce J. Schulman Since the 1980s, Dr. Bruce J. Schulman has been teaching and writing about the political face of the United States. He is Professor of History at Boston University. He has taken an active role in education. Other contributions from Bruce J. Schulman to the collection: Student’s Guide…

  • Legal Citation

    Legal citations are the references in the text or in footnotes to the primary source of the rule being used, the source of proof or authority. In the United States In the United States, if you are searching for a legal citation you must use the precise […]

  • Encyclopedia of Law and Higher Education

    Encyclopedia of Law and Higher Education Details Alternative Titles Sage eReference , Encyclopedia of Law & Higher Education Encyclopedia of Law and Higher Education (SAGE Reference Online) Sage e-Reference, e Reference Editor Charles J. Russo, editor also of the Handbook of Comparative Higher Education Law. Description from the Publisher This Encyclopedia of Law and Higher…

  • Law Libraries

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  • Swann v Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education

    Introduction to Swann v Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of EducationSwann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, decision by the Supreme Court of the United States, handed down in 1971, that dealt with methods of court-ordered desegregation in public schools. The Supreme Court unanimously…

  • Encyclopedia of Education Law

    Encyclopedia of Education Law Bibliographic Details Title: Encyclopedia of Education Law Author: Charles J. Russo, editor. Publisher: SAGE Copyright: 2008 Description: 2 volumes Pages: 1012 ISBN: 1412963915 (ebook); 9781412963916 (ebook) Abstract: The ‘Encyclopedia of Education Law’ is a compendium of information drawn from the various dimensions of education law. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.…