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  • 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 […]

  • 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…

  • Common Law Legal System

    Common Law: The Legal SystemThe common law is based on the principle of deciding cases by reference to previous judicial decisions, rather than to written statutes drafted by legislative bodies. Common law can be contrasted to the civil-law system, based on ancient Roman law, found in conti…

  • Law and politics : a cross-cultural Encyclopedia

    Law and politics : a cross-cultural Encyclopedia Bibliographic Details Title: Law and politics : a cross-cultural encyclopedia Author: Daniel P. Strouthes. Publisher: Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c1995. LC Classification: K 487 .P65S77 1995X Pages: 301 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm. ISBN: 0874367778 Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-283) and index. Law and…

  • Religion and American Law: An Encyclopedia

    Religion and American Law: An Encyclopedia Bibliographic Details Title: Religion and American Law: An Encyclopedia ISBN: 9780815307501 LC Classification: KF4783.A68 R45 Editor: Finkelman, Paul Publisher: Routledge Editor: Finkelman, Paul Location: New York Subjects: Reference, Constitutional, Sociology of Religion, Church and state, Freedom of religion, Religion and law, Sociology of Religion, United States, Law-Legal Guides, Civil…

  • State law

    State law The power of state law has historically included governing the following kinds of issues and claims: Contracts, including sales, commercial paper, letters of credit, and secured transactions Torts Property, including real property, bailments of personal property (such as […]

  • Classification of Law

    Classifying Law Note: see also Law Classification in this Encyclopedia In many countries, laws originate from three main sources: previous judicial decisions (common law), parliament/s (acts, statutes or legislation), and the Constitution (constitutional law). Legal Systems Legal Systems Civil Law Legal System Common Law Legal System Customary Law System Mixed Legal System Muslim Law System…

  • Classification schemes in the UK

    Classification schemes in the UK “Class K, may be the dominant classification scheme in the United States, but a 2007 survey indicated that only 5% of law libraries surveyed in the UK are using Class K.(1) Most of the UK law libraries (41%) are still maintaining their own in-house scheme, with the next largest number…

  • 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…

  • KIA-KIK North America LC Classification

    KIA-KIK North America — Continued KIE-KIK United States US Diagram Cf. KF8201+ Indians (Law of the United States) Cf. E78-99.Z9 Indians of North America KIE (5000 no) Regional comparative American Indian law Bibliography General bibliography 2.A-Z Guides to law collections. Tribal law gateways (Portals). Web directories, A-Z Including national and regional tribal directories 2.A46 American…

  • LC Classification on the Law of the Indigenous Peoples in the Americas

    LC Classification on the Law of the Indigenous Peoples in the Americas In june 2011 started the drafts for a new subclass of the Library of Congress K classification in the works dealing with the Law of the Indigenous Peoples in the Americas. As Jolande Goldberg notes the following motivations for the development of this…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Classification of Law Materials

    Classification of Law Materials General Genre/form The Library of Congress (LC) added, in 2015, the much-anticipated “general genre/form terms” to the Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms for Library and Archival Materials (LCGFT), and they are live in the authority file. The project to develop these general genre/form terms was a partnership between LC’s Policy and…