Tag: Legal Materials
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Doing Business in Foreign Countries
Doing Business in Foreign Countries Here are some useful sources: The World Bank’s Doing Business Project. The Country Commercial Guides by the U.S. Commercial Service (free). Use the Market Research Library Search with the “Report Type” set to “Country Commercial Guides.” The PriceWaterhouseCoopers “Doing Business in ______” series. The free Deloitte International Tax and Business…
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Martindale-Hubbell
Martindale-Hubbell Martindale-Hubbell is the leading directory of attorneys in U.S. law firm. The set also has listings for some foreign attorneys, law schools/professors, state bar associations, plus summaries of the laws of all states & many foreign countries (“Law Digests”), the Model Code of Professional Responsibility (with a cross-reference table between the Code and the…
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Letters Rogatory
Letters Rogatory An old edition of the Black’s Law Dictionary defines Letters Rogatory as “A request by one court of another court in an independent jurisdiction that a witness be examined upon interrogatories sent with the request.” Legal Materials The U.S. State Department posts instructions on how to prepare Letters Rogatory andhow that information applies…
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Company Information
Company Information Legal Materials: Some Basics When someone asks for information about a company, a complete answer will include: company profiles, financial data, news articles and any other information particularly relevant to that company. Some researchers generally use the following sources, not necessarily in order, to compile a packet with a reasonable amounts of each…
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International Treaties
International Treaties in general Resources See Also Popular Treaties Topics Treaties of the United Nations (UN) Types of Treaties International Treaties Famous Treaties Law of Treaties Numbered Treaties
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Document Retrieval Services
Document Retrieval Services For corporate filings, try Perfect Information, CSC (800-221-0770), CSC, CT(800-4284685) and/or Westlaw CourtEXPRESS (800-638-7387). Document retrieval services working in Canada include Select Document Services Inc.(1-888-498-4500 or info@select-document.com), National Corporate Research, Ltd.(800-221-0102 or Info@NationalCorp.com) and Westlaw CourtEXPRESS (800-638-7387). Document retrieval services working in the United Kingdom include Perfect Information and Research Solutions (866-933-4634),…
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Foreign Laws
Foreign Laws Secondary Sources: The subscription-based Foreign Law Guide: Current Sources of Codes and Basic Legislation in Jurisdictions of the World by Reynolds and Flores explains the legal bibliographies of most foreign countries, including subject-specific treatises in English [formerly published by F. B. Rothman as a looseleaf under the title Foreign Laws]. The blue pages…
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African Law
History of the African Law African Law in the Precolonial Period For more information about this section, in the context of the legal history, see the main entry in this legal encyclopedia. African Law in the Colonial Period For more information about this section, in the context of the […]
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Jewish Law
Jewish law. Halakah Table of contents. Halakah Even ha-?ezer law (General) H . oshen mishpat. law (General) Mishpat Ivri Bibliography Monographic series Legal Education . Study and teaching General works The concept of Jewish law Sources of Jewish […]
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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…
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Domain Names
Domain Names…
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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…