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  • Parry and Grant Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law

    Parry and Grant Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law According to Introduction to Research in International Law (see Further Reading) this Legal dictionary is an “intermix of dictionary and encyclopedia, this is a one-of-a-kind reference tool on contemporary international law that brings together both terminology and pertinent descriptive information on international law. It provides enough information…

  • 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 topics

    Academic Legal topics Law in general Comparative and uniform law Jurisprudence Legal Periodicals Bibliography Legal Monographic series Encyclopedias of Law Dictionaries of Law Words and phrases Legal Maxims Legal Quotations Legal Yearbooks Legal Directories Legal Research Legal composition and draftsmanship Legal Education Law societies International bar associations The legal profession Legal aid Legal assistance to…

  • Digest

    The Legal History of Digest of JustinianThis section provides an overview of Digest of Justinian ResourcesSee AlsoLegal Biography Legal Traditions Historical Laws History of Law Further Reading Digest of Justinian in the Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History (Oxford University […]

  • A Concise Encyclopedia of the United Nations

    A Concise Encyclopedia of the United Nations Author: Volger, Helmut, ed. Publication details: New York: Kluwer Law International, 2002. Review of “A Concise Encyclopedia of the United Nations” According to “Introduction to Research in International Law”(see Further Reading) this dictionary of international law is an English edition of the German “Lexikon der Vereinten Nationen”and provides…

  • List of Legal Dictionaries

    List of Legal Dictionaries Prescription Dictionaries vs. Description Dictionaries In the introduction to A Dictionary of Statutory Interpretation, his author, William D. Popkin, explained that there is a “major dispute about dictionaries … whether the dictionary should be descriptive or prescriptive. This debate is well known in the context of ordinary dictionaries, where the dispute…

  • John Bouvier

    John Bouvier John Bouvier (1787-1851) was a writer, publisher and lawyer. He was born in Codogno, France, in 1787. He immigrated to Philadelphia, with his (quaker) family, when he was fifteen. Bouvier oppened his own press, after working as apprentice to a printer, in 1808. He started in 1814 a weekly newspaper, “The American Telegraph”.…

  • United States Supreme Court

    The Supreme Court must exercise discretion in deciding which cases to hear, since more than 10,000 civil and criminal cases are filed in the Supreme Court each year from various State and Federal courts. Ultimately, plenary review, with oral arguments by attorneys, is granted in about 100 cases per term. Formal written opinions are delivered…