Search results for: “legal subjects”
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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…
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A Selection of Legal Maxims
A Selection of Legal Maxims “A Selection of Legal Maxims, Classtfieli and Illustrated”is a legal treatise. By Herbert Broom, Barrister at Law, and, in the 6th Edition (1884), also by CHARLES CAGNEY and HERBERT F. MANISTY. LONDON: W. MAXWELL & SON, 8, BELL YARD, TEMPLE BAR. PREFACE TO THE SIXTH EDITION. The reader will find…
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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…
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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…
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Indexes to Legal Periodicals
Indexes to Legal Periodicals There are several ways to find articles in legal periodicals. In several countries, there are periodicals or paper indexes, like the ones listed in this entry. There are (in some cases, there were) other indexes (like Abstracts of Book Reviews in Current Legal Periodicals, or Legal Contents). And there are legal…
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Legal Information Institute resources
Legal Information Institute resources 1. Australasian Legal Information Institute Description The Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) provides free internet access to Australian legal materials, especially primary materials such as legislation and caselaw 2. Australian Treaties Database Description “The Australian Treaties Database (ATD) is an on-line resource for researching treaties to which Australia is a signatory,…
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Legal Information Institute resources
Legal Information Institute resources 1. Australasian Legal Information Institute Description The Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) provides free internet access to Australian legal materials, especially primary materials such as legislation and caselaw 2. Australian Treaties Database Description “The Australian Treaties Database (ATD) is an on-line resource for researching treaties to which Australia is a signatory,…
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Legal concepts
Legal concepts The legal concepts change with the legal history. There are developments in the theories and concepts of law (including in separate doctrinal areas) over the past decades which have effect in the tort, contract, crime, property and Administrative law . Typical concepts in this subject are: harm wrongfulness, fault, responsibility, causation, liability, punishment,…
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“Lex iniusta non est lex”? Do seriously unjust laws bind? Legally?
Main source: Finnis, John, “Natural Law Theories”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2011 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = . “Lex iniusta non est lex” ? Do seriously unjust laws bind? Legally? In such a case, does the law as settled by social-fact sources, in losing its directiveness for judges and citizens, lose…
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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.…
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Subjects of International Law. Bibliography
Subjects of International Law Bibliography Reference works •Roselyn Higgins, Problems and process : international law and how we use it , 1995 •Malcolm Shaw , International Law, 2008 •James David Armstrong and Jutta Brune?e, Routledge handbook of international law, 2009 Books •BLIESEMANN DE GUEVARA, BERIT, Statebuilding and state-formation : the political sociology of intervention /…
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International Legal Research
International Legal Research Contents of International Legal Research General Overview English Translations This subsection includes the following: Finding Translations Translations of Foreign Law Effective Web Research This contains subjects as follows: Web Searching in Legal Research Using Search Engines Effectively Blogs Electronic Discussion Lists Wikis Resource Tools Citation Management Tools Commentary & Analysis Introductory and…
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Citation of legal blogs in law reviews
The importance (and credibility) of law blogs was confirmed when the U.S. Supreme Court of the United States cited its first blog in January, 2005. See United States v. Booker, 125 S. Ct. 738, 775 n.4 (2005). An article in Slaw (“citing blogs in Law Journals ) points the idea that the “question still arises…
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Legal blogosfera review this week
Legal blogosfera review this week Legal History Blog tells about an essay on billboards and how the public and the court have judged billboards’ aesthetic qualities. Workplace Prof Blog tells about an article on “Reframing Women Employees’ Responses to the Harms of Sexual Harassment.” According to the abstract, an employee’s response to sexual harassment generally…