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  • KF Modified

    KF Modified Classification (Canada) KF Modified is the short form for KF Classification Modified for Use in Canadian Law Libraries and is a classification suitable for legal collections in any common Law library . Generally, and contrary to the Library of Congress (LC) classification scheme, KF Modified organizes legal information by topic first and then…

  • Thesaurus of Law Genre/Form Terms

    Thesaurus of Law Genre/Form Terms Subject headings have traditionally been assigned to describe the content of the work. Genre/form terms, on the other hand, describe what an item is, not what it is about. The subject heading Famous Cases, with appropriate subdivisions, would be assigned to a book about famous cases. A cataloger assigning headings…

  • Dewey Decimal Classification

    Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system is one of the world’s most widely used library classification system; but not in law libraries. The four-volume print last edition includes thousands of updates added to the system over the past seven years. The electronic version, WebDewey, enhances the print updates with online updated…

  • General Division Classification (Max Planck Institute)

    General Division Classification (Max Planck Institute) Notation System Tags AA 1 General Theory of Law, Philosophy AA 1.1.1 Legal Philosophy: Legal Philosophy AA 1.2.2 Creation of law, interpretation: Lawmaking, Interpretation, Legal findings AA 1.3.3 Legal Theory: Legal Theory, Natural law, Normativism, Positivism, Pure Theory of Law AA 1.4.4 Sociology of Law: Sociology of Law AA…

  • Library of Congress Classification Class K

    Library of Congress Classification Class K System Many large law libraries from the United States, Canada (specially the major libraries, but not the law firm libraries) and other countries use the classification scheme developed by the Library of Congress (LC). Under this system, each item (like a book) is assigned a call number according to…

  • Municipal law Classification (Max Planck Institute)

    Municipal Law Classification (Max Planck Institute) country abbreviations: I. Regions Africa Afr/Allg Baltic Balt/Allg Balkans Blk/Allg Islam Isl/Allg Latin Amerika L/Allg Karibik L/Kar Central Amerika L/MA Eastern Asia OA/Allg East Central Europe OME Oceania Oze/Allg Comparative law Rvgl Scandinavia SK/Allg Southeast Asia OA/Süd country abbreviations: I. Individual Countries Abu Dhabi Isl/AD Afghanistan Isl/Afgh Egypt; Isl/Aeg…

  • Comparative Law Classification (Max Planck Institute)

    Comparative Law Classification (Max Planck Institute) Notation Classification Rvgl 1. History Rvgl 2. Constitution Rvgl 2.1. Constitution, general aspects Rvgl 2.2. Federation and Constituent States/Regions [Foreign Relations Power see 6. 1.] Rvgl 2.3. Parliament, Legislative Process Rvgl 2.4. Elections Rvgl 2.5. Political Parties Rvgl 2.6. Government Rvgl 2.7. Head of State Rvgl 2.8. Basic Rights…

  • Public International Law Classification (Max Planck Institute)

    Public International Law Classification (Max Planck Institute) Notation Classification VR1 General VR 1.1 Comprehensive Studies VR 1.2 Surveys of State Practice VR 1.3 Surveys of Judicial Decisions VR 1.4 Surveys of Literature VR 1.5 Institutes, Societies VR 1.5.1 Institut de Droit International (before 1996 see 1.5.3) VR 1.5.2 International Law Association (before 1996 see 1.5.3)…

  • Annotations

    Annotations Annotations in General In the past they were called “glossation”, and sometimes still are called “gloss”. Annotations (abbreviations: anno. or ann.) are notes from cases, statutes, treatises, essays, articles and similar which are included in a legal text (such a law, case or treatise section). They are discussion notes or cross-references of the text…

  • Court Reports

    Court reports (also called “reports”) are published collections of histories of legal cases, with the arguments used by counsel and the reasons given for the decision of the court. They are volumes of printed (or online) opinions of magistrates, judges or justices. Case report may be official or unofficial, authoritatives or not. Most unofficial reports…

  • WorldCat

    WorldCat WorldCat is a global network of library catalog, content and services that uses the Web to let institutions (with a global library network of more than 9,000 institutions) be more connected WorldCat is a database of bibliographic information built continuously by libraries around the world since 1971. Each record in the WorldCat database contains…

  • Law Classification

    Classification of law Current Information Technologies and Web-based services need to manage, select and filter increasing amounts of textual information. Text classifi- cation allows users, through navigation on class hierarchies, to browse more easily the texts of their interests. This paradigm is very effective both in filtering information as in the development of online end-user…

  • Web-based Law Library Catalogs

    Web-based Law Library Catalogs United States Libraries Arthur W. Diamond Law Library, Columbia Law School (New York, NY) Biddle Law Library, University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA) George Mason University School of Law (Arlington, VA) Fordham Law Library (New York) Jenkins Law Library (Philadelphia, PA) The Library of Congress Catalogs (Washington, D.C.) Lillian Goldman Library at…

  • Moody Classification system

    Moody Classification System History: Foreign and comparative law librarianship Margaret M. Moody and her sister, Murtle, both started work as assistant librarians at Harvard Law School Library. The two sisters later created the famous Moody Classification system – a way of cataloging foreign law literature with country codes featuring the Moody’s own numbering system. Margaret…

  • Moody Classification system

    Moody Classification System History: Foreign and comparative law librarianship Margaret M. Moody and her sister, Murtle, both started work as assistant librarians at Harvard Law School Library. The two sisters later created the famous Moody Classification system – a way of cataloging foreign law literature with country codes featuring the Moody’s own numbering system. Margaret…