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  • Legal History Resources

    Legal History Resources Legal History Resources in the Legal encyclopedias Legal history in the International Encyclopedia of Law>: Entries about Legal History in the International Encyclopedia of Law Legal history in the American Encyclopedia of Law: Entries about Legal History in the American Encyclopedia of Law Legal history in the Asian Encyclopedia of Law: Entries…

  • 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…

  • Print Vs. Online Encyclopedias

    Print Vs. Online Encyclopedias for Legal Research In a study conducted with students (some of them with Learning handicaps) which compared subjects’ abilities to use print and online encyclopedias, Dave L. Edyburn found that an online encyclopedia (with menus) was superior to a print encyclopedia at answering factual questions. (1) In their “Performance in Electronic…

  • List of Legal History Broader Databases

    List of Legal History Broader Databases The following databases are comprehensive, covering a wide selection of time periods, and can be a starting point for a more specific database. Primary Sources Databases These databases provide access to full-text materials from the Middle Ages to the present: handwritten manuscripts, early printed treatises, pamphlets, etc. Some of…

  • French Legal Abbreviations

    Law Abbreviations in France List of Legal Abbreviations in France BLD — Bulletin legislatif Dalloz BullCiv — Bulletin des arrets de la cour de cassation, chambres civiles BullCrim — Bulletin des arrets de la cour de cassation, chambres criminelle Cadm — Code administratif Cciv — Code civil Ccom — Code de commerce Cpen — Code…

  • Modern Legal Systems Cyclopedia

    Modern Legal Systems Cyclopedia The Modern Legal Systems Cyclopedia comprises introductions to the major legal systems in the world, with coverage ranging from legal Education and the way of professional practice, to the form of government and substantive law. This comprehensive compilation was a result of the efforts of Kenneth Robert Redden, who was a…

  • 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…

  • Legal citation and the Encyclopedia

    Legal Citation and the Encyclopedia See How to Cite the Encyclopedia Citation A Citation may be defined as a reference that identifies a particular case, law review article, book, statute or other resource. For example, in the United States, the citation for John v. Smith may be 820 U.S. 999 (1985). The case appears, therefore,…

  • Legal Dictionary

    Legal Dictionary “When [legal professionals] look up a word in a dictionary and they often do they are as likely as not to select a poor dictionary.” – Max Radin (“A Juster Justice, a More Lawful Law,” ) What Is a Legal Dictionary? A legal dictionary provides the legal definition of a word or term.…

  • List of Specialty legal blogs

    Administrative law fedlawyerguy.org Government Contracts Litigation Hurricane Law Blog NLRB Law Memo Admiralty Law Admiralty, Boating, and Maritime Law Podcasts Boating Safety Law and News Proctor in Admiralty Advertising Law 43(B)log The Advertising Law Blog Alternative Dispute Resolution adr all-stars Campus-adr Weblog Florida Mediator MEDIATION MINDSET National Arbitration Forum Blog Online Guide to Mediation Perspectives…

  • History of Codification

    See the information on Codification in France and Louisiana in the legal encyclopedias of Europe and the United States. Resources See Also Civil Code History Codification History

  • History of Codification

    See the information on Codification in France and Louisiana in the legal encyclopedias of Europe and the United States. Resources See Also Civil Code History Codification History

  • Administrative Law

    Introduction Administrative law deals with the exercise of public power and the control of government decisions. Topics in administrative law include the role of the State, the governmental structures that influence the administrative law system, the principles of good administration, the […]

  • Administrative Law

    Introduction Administrative law deals with the exercise of public power and the control of government decisions. Topics in administrative law include the role of the State, the governmental structures that influence the administrative law system, the principles of good administration, the […]

  • All Contents

    All International Contents in this Legal Encyclopedia Countries Find all countries covered by the legal Encyclopedias. Main Legal Encyclopedias World Legal Encyclopedia American Legal Encyclopedia Asia Legal Encyclopedia India Legal Encyclopedia European Legal Encyclopedia Africa Legal Encyclopedia UK Legal Encyclopedia Australian Legal Encyclopedia Regions Find all regions and other grouppings covered by the legal Encyclopedias.…