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LAW

This is a selected guide to resources held in the Coleman Library to support law. To locate any of the listed materials, consult the online catalog or ask the librarian. CLASSIFICATION OF MATERIAL:

Library of Congress classification for Law is K

K1-7720 Law in general. Comparative and uniform law. Jurisprudence KB1-4855 Religious law in general. Comparative religious law. Jurisprudence KD Law of the United Kingdom and Ireland KDZ1-4999 America. North America KE Law of Canada KE1-9450 Federal law. Common and collective provincial law KF Law of the United States KF1-9827 Federal law. KG1-999 Latin America (General) KH1-999 South America (General) KJ- KK 2-999 Europe Asia and Eurasia, Africa, Pacific Area, and Antarctica KL2-5915 History of law. The ancient orient KM-KW Asia and Eurasia, Africa, Pacific Area, and Antarctica KM-KW1-999 General KZ 1-999 Law of Nations (General)

SELECTED RESOURCES

BIBLIOGRAPHIC RESOURCES Hargett, Lester. A Bibliography of the Constitutions and Laws of American Indians. [Law Library KF8220.A1 H3 2003]

Law Library of Congress (U.S.). Library of Congress Law Library: An Illustrated Guide. [Federal Documents LC1.6/4:L41] Nyberg, Cheryl. Subject Compilations of State Laws, 2000-2001: An Annotated Bibliography. [Law Library KF 240.S795 2000-2001]

Petit, Patrick, Benjamin Almoite, Columbus School of Law, and The Staff of Judge Kathryn J. DuFour Law Library. The Catholic Dimensions of Legal Study: The Catholic University Law School Annotated Bibliography. [Law Library KF1.C38 2004] Price Loretta. An Explosive Quarter- Century: A Guide to Monographic Works on Women’s Legal and Political Rights. [Law Library Z963.S9 P75 2003] Schultz, Jon S. Multinational Statutes Compared: A Research Guide to Statutes by Subject. [Law Library K85.S38 2003] White, Terry. Justice Denoted: The Legal Thriller in American, British, and Continental Courtroom Literature. [NetLibrary]

DICTIONARIES/ENCYCLOPEDIAS

Bix, Brian. A Dictionary of Legal Theory. [Coleman – Reference K204.B59 2004] Costello, Elaine. Random House Webster’s American Sign Language Legal Dictionary. [Coleman – Reference K52.A6 C67 2003] Dahl, Henry Saint. McGraw-Hill’s Spanish and English Legal Dictionary: Diccionario Juridico Inglees-Espanol. [Coleman – Reference K52.S6 D34 2004] Garner, Bryan A. Black’s Law Dictionary. [Law Library KF 156.B53 2004] Irving, Shae, Beth McKenna, and Kathleen Michon. Nolo’s Encyclopedia of Everyday Law: Answers to Your Frequently Asked Legal Questions. [Law Library KF387.N65 2002] Kritzer, Herbert M., ed. Legal Systems of the World: A Political, Social, and Cultural Encyclopedia. [Law Library – Reference K48.L44 2002] Roman, Alfred. Worterbuch Der Rechts – Und Wirschaftssprache=Dictionary of Legal and Commercial Terms. [Law Library – Reference K52.G4 R65 2002]

U. S. Customs and Border Protection. Customs Valuation Encyclopedia, 1980 – 2003: An Informed Compliance Publication. [Federal Documents T17.2:EN1/980-2003] Vaidya, Ashish K. Globalization: Encyclopedia of Trade, Labor, and Politics. [Coleman – Reference JZ1318.G5816 2006] Vargas, Jorge A. Mexican Legal Dictionary and Desk Reference. [Law Library KGF102.V37 2003]

HANDBOOKS

Carter, Gregg Lee. Gun Control in the United States: A Reference Handbook. [NetLibrary] Ferrand, Alain. Routledge Handbook of Sports Sponsorship: Successful Strategies. [NetLibrary] Fleischer, Charles. Employer’s Rights: Your Legal Handbook From Hiring to Termination and Everything in Between. [NetLibrary] Gastel, Barbara. Health Writer’s Handbook. [NetLibrary] Graham, Michael H. Handbook of Federal Evidence. [Law Library KF8935.G68 2006] Green, Jennifer. Dealing With Death: A Handbook of Practices, Procedures, and Law. [NetLibrary] Holtzman, Elizabeth. The Impeachment of George W. Bush: A Handbook For Concerned Citizens. [Coleman KF5076.B87 H65 2006] Hornsby, Jeffrey Scott. Frontline HR: A Handbook for the Emerging Manager. [Coleman HF5549.H52987 2005] Ostrager, Barry R. Handbook of Insurance Disputes. [Law Library KF 1164.O793.2006] Schell, Cybercrime: A Reference Handbook. [NetLibrary] Shelton, Carla F. The Exceptional Teacher’s Handbook: The First – Year Special Education Teacher’s Guide to Success. [NetLibrary]

Steingold, Fred. The Employer’s Legal Handbook. [NetLibrary] Wooley, David. Clean Air Handbook: A Practical Guide to Compliance. [Law Library KF3812.M69 2006]

DATABASES

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Congressional Lexis Nexis Congressional gives researchers access to vast and varied information published by and about Congress. In addition to the indexing and abstracting of the CIS/Index to Publications of the U.S. Congress from 1970. CQ Electronic Encyclopedia of American Government A one-stop, easy-to-navigate reference on Congress, the Presidency, Supreme Court, and U.S. Election process, which is based on the award-winning A to Z Encyclopedia series. CQ Electronic Library The main menu for the CQ Press Electronic Library of databases, including: CQ Electronic Encyclopedia of American Government, CQ Insider, CQ Public Affairs Collection, CQ Researcher, and CQ Supreme Court Collection. Links and descriptions for each of these databases appear alphabetically on this list. CQ Press Connect to CQ Press to gain access to the following databases: CQ Electronic Encyclopedia of American Government, CQ Insider, CQ Public Affairs Collection, CQ Researcher, and CQ Supreme Court Collection. Links and descriptions for each of these databases appear alphabetically on this list. CQ Public Affairs Collection The CQ Public Affairs Collection, a storehouse of public policy content organized by 22 key topics, pulls together CQ's wealth of historic documents and primary source materials, statistical overviews, directory contact information, and the very best in-depth reporting on current affairs to create a one-stop source for public policy content. CQ Researcher One of Library Journal's Best Reference Sources 2000. The CQ Researcher is your complete source for in-depth analysis reporting on the most current and controversial issues of the day. CQ Supreme Court Collection CQ Supreme Court Collection blends historical analysis with timely updates and expert commentary of Supreme Court decisions, biographies of Supreme Court justices, Supreme Court institutional history, and the U.S. Constitution. Criminal Law Report Reports on significant developments, trends, and emerging patterns in criminal law. Coverage of federal and state court decisions, federal legislative activities, and administrative developments in criminal law.

Criminal Justice Periodical Index Provides cover-to-cover access for 45 criminal justice journals, plus complete abstracts for over 100 additional titles. Publications in CJPI focus primarily on practical issues in crime prevention and deterrence, juvenile delinquency, police issues, and courtroom procedures, but includes a number of highly respected theoretical journals as well. CURL Union Catalogue (CUC) The Consortium of University Research Libraries (CURL) is a group of research libraries in the British Isles whose mission is "to promote, maintain and improve library resources for research in universities". The CURL Union Catalogue (CUC) represents the holdings of CURL members, including UK and Ireland legal deposit libraries.. Deutsche Bibliothek Database (DBD) A union catalog of the records of National Library of Germany, the Deutsche Bibliothek. The database includes the holdings of the Deutsche Bucherei Leipzig (founded in 1913), the Deutsche Bibliothek Frankfurt am Main (founded 1947), and the Deutsches Musikarchiv Berlin (since 1970). There are 6.5 million bibliographic records in the database. A fuller description is available upon connection. Dissertations & Theses The ProQuest Dissertations & Theses database (PQDT) is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. It is the database of record for graduate research, with over 2.3 million dissertations and theses included from around the world. Dissertations & Theses: A&I The ProQuest Dissertations & Theses database (PQDT) is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. It is the database of record for graduate research, with over 2.3 million dissertations and theses included from around the world. EIS: Digests of Environmental Impact Statements The federal government issues hundreds of environmental impact statements each year - and this one resource provides detailed abstracts of all of those statements, also indexing them for easy reference. Each entry includes a clear description of the project, sections on positive impact and negative consequences, and legal mandates. Electronics & Communications Abstracts This comprehensive guide to the ongoing work in the of field of Electronics and Communications tracks every relevant source of information necessary to keep abreast in this discipline. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online Consists of a fully searchable and browsable collection of authoritative references, including Britannica's latest article database

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Expanded Academic ASAP (Gale Group) Access full text articles and images from scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers in the arts, humanities, social sciences, science and technology. Abstracts are included for some articles. Florida Documents Index This online database identifies publications housed in the Florida Documents Collection at Florida Atlantic University (FAU). The collection includes public documents distributed by the State Library of Florida since 1967 under the Florida Public Documents Depository Program. Florida Heritage Collection The Florida Heritage Collection is an ongoing cooperative SUS project to digitize and provide web access to materials broadly representing Florida's history, culture, arts, literature, sciences and social sciences. Significant materials have been selected from libraries, archives and special collections departments of the SUS institutions. Florida Historical Legal Documents (LAW) Florida Historical Legal Documents is a growing collection of primary source materials surveying changes in Florida law from the time it became a territory in 1822 through 1845 when Florida became a state. The collection includes the complete Florida Territorial Laws, a time capsule of Florida history documenting the establishment of the territorial court system based on British Common Law as of July 4, 1776. Florida Supreme Court Briefs and Opinions Briefs and opinions of the Supreme Court of the state of Florida. Florida Times Union (newspaper) Jacksonville, Florida - Index 1986 to 1997 The Florida Times-Union Index was created by the University of North Florida Library Reference Department. Indexing is limited to Northeast Florida regional news (including Baker, Clay, Duval, Nassau, Putnam and St. Johns Counties), Florida legislative news, and national and state news stories that stir strong local interest. Gale Group Connect to Galenet to gain access to the following databases: Biography and Genealogy Master index, Biography Resource Center + The Complete Marquis Who's Who, Gales's Business Resources, Gale's Ready Reference Shelf, Health and Wellness Resource Center, History Resource Center, Literature Resource Center (LRC). Links and descriptions for each of these databases are listed alphabetically on this list. Gale Virtual Reference Library Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7.

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Handbook of Latin American Studies Contains records describing books, book chapters, articles, and conference papers published in the field of Latin American studies and edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress. Coverage includes relevant books as well as over 1,350 social science and 550 humanities journals and volumes of conference proceedings published worldwide. Health & Safety Sciences Abstracts Contains records describing books, book chapters, articles, and conference papers published in the field of Latin American studies and edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress. Coverage includes relevant books as well as over 1,350 social science and 550 humanities journals and volumes of conference proceedings published worldwide. Over 60% of records contain evaluative annotations by more than 130 contributing subject specialists. Historic Events of the 20th Century Historic Events of the 20th Century including the Civil Rights Movement and the collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union. Includes a narrative history and analysis with primary documents, biographical profiles, hyperlinked chronologies, glossaries, photos, maps, and over 1,800 web links and multimedia resources. Historical Abstracts Historical Abstracts - Abstracts and indexes literature covering countries other than the United States and Canada in the subject areas of history,the social sciences and humanities. The scope of coverage is World History (1450 - present) and related areas including culture, diplomacy, economics, international relations and politics. History Resource Center An integrated collection of primary documents, secondary reference sources, and journal articles covering all areas of U.S. history from pre-colonial times to the present day. It combines more than 1,000 primary documents with the broad background and overview coverage found in more than a dozen reference sources from the Gale Group, including standards such as Scribner's Dictionary of American History and Dictionary of American Biography. Hoovers Company Capsules, Hoovers Company Information, and Hoovers Company Profiles HOOVERS COMPANY CAPSULES -- Search for brief information on 15,000 companies covered by Hoover's. Company Capsules deliver information on a company's location, summary financials, top competitors, top officers, and more. HOOVERS COMPANY PROFILES -- Find in-depth company information on over 5,000 companies with Hoover's Company Profiles. Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals Contains citations from legal journals and other publications covering international law other than the US, British Isles and British Commonwealth.

Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text A bibliographic database that cites articles from legal periodicals and indexes law books. Full text coverage for selected periodicals is also included. Periodical coverage includes law reviews, bar association journals, university publications, yearbooks, institutes, and government publications. Index to Legal Periodicals & Books covers all areas of jurisprudence, including recent court decisions, new legislation, and original scholarship. InfoTrac Access to the following databases: Business and Company Resource Center, Custom Newspapers, Expanded Academic ASAP, General BusinessFile ASAP, Health Reference Center, Informe!, InfoTrac OneFile, Investext Select, and Legal Trac. Links and descriptions for each of these databases are listed alphabetically on this list. InfoTrac OneFile Search humanities, education, business, science, current events, art, politics, economics, social science, law, health care, computers, technology, environmental issues, and general interest topics. Ingenta An online periodical article delivery service and a current awareness alerting service. Indexes nearly 26,000 English language periodicals. Inside Information Plus Contains records describing articles from the British Library Document Supply Centre's most requested journals and magazines .Coverage includes different areas of science, technology, medicine, humanities, and social sciences Investext Plus Reports and forecasts prepared by top Wall Street and international brokerage firms. More than 11,000 U.S. and international companies and 53 industries are covered. ISI Web of Knowledge Access to products essential to research in academic, corporate, government, and non-profit organizations. Search individual products such as Web of Science or Current Contents Connect, or search multiple products simultaneously through CrossSearch. Journals@Ovid Access to the full text of Your Journals@Ovid, journals to which FAMU has subscribed, plus all of the bibliographic citations, references, and abstracts in the Journals@Ovid database, an aggregate of hundreds of scientific, technical, and medical journals from over 50 publishers and societies. Journals@Ovid offers coverage from 1996 to the present for many journals, and the coverage of some journals dates back as far as 1993.

JSTOR Full text of 100+ core research journals in many subject areas. Coverage starts at the beginning year of publication and includes all but the most recent years (as required by the publisher). Each year an additional year of currently published titles is made available. More subject areas and additional titles are being added regularly. Kluwer Journals Online Full text of 600+ of Kluwer's research journals (most since 1997) covering a wide range of scientific disciplines, including mathematics, information science, economics, and business. Adobe Acrobat plug-in is required to view the PDF format full text articles. Labor and Employment Law Library Archives the weekly print summary of key labor and employment law developments. The Analysis portion reviews the relevant background, and evaluates its significance in the field of employment relations. The News and Background portion reports on each week's non decisional developments. The Summary of Developments portion includes reviews of the major rulings in the latest case issues, and the Grievance Settlement analyzes a particularly interesting and relevant arbitration decision. Legal Trac Use this database to find articles in all major law reviews, law journals, specialty law and bar association journals, and legal newspapers on Federal and State Cases, Laws and Government Regulations, Legal Practice, and legal subjects such as Taxation and International Law. British Commonwealth and European Union cases and law are also included. Lexis Nexis Academic Lexis-Nexis Universe provides more than 9.5 million documents from over 18,300 sources. Lexis-Nexis Universe provides access to company profiles and financial reports, government transcripts, trade journals and academic and legal databases. Their files are updated with full-text documents from general interest wire services, newspapers, and magazines from around the world. Lexis Nexis Congressional Lexis Nexis Congressional gives researchers access to vast and varied information published by and about Congress. In addition to the indexing and abstracting of the CIS/Index to Publications of the U.S. Congress from 1970. Library of Congress THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet Legislation, Congressional Record, and committee information. Full text access to current bills under consideration in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate. Los Angeles Times Major daily newspaper from Los Angeles. With the nation's largest editorial department, it offers extensive coverage of national, international, and local news from 1985 to the present.

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INDEXES AND ABSTRACTS

Arnes, Janet T. Stem Cell Research: Issues and Bibliography. [Coleman Library QH588.S83 S7398 2006] Arena, Samuel J., and Keith Whitten., eds. Surety Law. [NetLibrary]. Carrick, Karen M. and Sally Walters., eds. A Bibliography of United States Legal

Education: From Litchfield to Lewis. [Law Library KF261.B53 2003] Hargrett, Lester. A Bibliography of the Constitutions and Laws of the American Indians. [Law Library KF8220.A1 H3 2003] Metz, Allan. Bill Clinton: A Bibliography. [NetLibrary] Nyberg, Cheryl. Subject Compilations of State Laws, 2000-2001: An Annotated Bibliography. [Law Library KF240.S795 2000-2001] Petit, Patrick, ed., Benjamin Almoite, and The Staff of Judge Kathryn J. Dufour Law

Library of the Catholic University of America. The Catholic Dimensions of Legal Study: The Catholic University Law School Annotated Bibliography. [Law Library KF1.C38 2004]

Price, Loretta. An Explosive Quarter-Century: A Guide to Monographic Works on Women’s Legal and Political Rights. [Law Library Z963.S9 P75 2003] Savage, David G. The Supreme Court and Individual Rights. [Law Library KF4748.W53 2004] White, Terry (Terrance). Justice Denoted: The Legal Thriller in American, British, and Continental Courtroom Literature. [Law Library PN3448.L4 J87 2003]

Zawati, Hilmi. A Selected Socio-legal Bibliography on the Ethnic Cleansing, Wartime Rape, and Genocide in the Former Yugoslavia, and Rwanda. [Law Library K5302.A12 Z39 2004]

PRINT AND ELECTRONIC JOURNALS

American Law and Economics Review from 1999 to present in Oxford Journals Online The American Bankruptcy Law Journal [NetLibrary] American Lawyer (New York. 1979) from 01/01/2003 to present in InfoTrac Student Edition Berkeley Business Law Journal [NetLibrary] Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law and Justice [Law Library – Periodicals] Cardozo Public Law, Policy, and Ethics Journal [Law Library – Periodicals] Columbia-VLA Journal of Law & The Arts from 01/01/1998 to present in LexisNexis Academic Entrepreneurial Business Law Journal [Law Library – Periodicals] Fordham Environmental Law Review [NetLibrary] Harvard Journal of Law and Gender [Law Library – Periodicals] Hastings Business Law Journal [NetLibrary] I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society [Law Library – Periodicals] Indian Journal of Human Rights and the Law [Law Library – Periodicals] International Journal of Legal Medicine from 01/01/1997 to present in SpringerLink Contemporary (1997 - Present) Journal of International Media and Entertainment Law [Law Library – Periodicals] Journal of Legal Economics From 01/01/1996 to present in LexisNexis Academic Journal of Legal Studies Education from 01/01/2002 to present in ABI/INFORM Global

Latin American Law and Business Report from 10/31/1997 to 01/31/1999 in Academic OneFile Law and Contemporary Problems from 01/01/1995 to present in Legal Periodicals Full Text Law & health weekly from 01/12/2004 to present in LexisNexis Academic Legal Affairs (New Haven, Conn.) from 07/01/2005 to 03/01/2006 in Readers' Guide Full Text Mega Edition Legal and Criminological Psychology from 02/01/2004 to 02/01/2006 in ProQuest 5000 International Legal and Liability Issues in Geotechnical Engineering from 01/24/2005 to 01/26/2005 in ASCE Conference Proceedings Legal and Public Policy Issues for Transgender Elders from 2003 to 2003 in Contemporary Women's Issues Legal Assistant Today from 11/01/1992 to 11/01/2000 in ABI/INFORM Global Legal Backgrounder from 01/10/1992 to present in LexisNexis Academic Legal Eagle Eye Newsletter for the Nursing Profession from 02/01/2006 to present in Academic OneFile Legal Information Alert from 01/01/2000 to present in Academic OneFile Legal Information Management (London, England) from 03/01/2004 to present in Cambridge Journals Online Legal Intelligencer from 01/02/2002 to 7 days ago in Academic OneFile Legal Medicine (Tokyo, Japan) from 09/01/1999 to present in ScienceDirect Journals Legal Nurse Consulting Ezine from 11/24/2006 to present in Academic OneFile

Legal PR Bulletin from 11/01/2005 to present in Business & Company Resource Center Legal Publisher from 01/31/1999 to present in PROMT Legal Studies Forum from 01/01/1997 to present in LexisNexis Academic Legal Theory from 1999 to present in Cambridge Journals Online Legal Times from 12/09/2002 to present in InfoTrac OneFile Legal Week 03/26/2002 to present in LexisNexis Academic Legal Writing : The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute from 01/01/2000 to present in LexisNexis Academic Lewis and Clark Law Review [NetLibrary] Loyola Law and Technology Annual from 01/01/2000 to present in LexisNexis Academic Manchester Journal of International Economic Law [NetLibrary] Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology [Law Library – Periodicals] NAFTA, Law and Business Review of the Americas from 1998 to 2002 in Kluwer Law International Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal from 01/01/1993 to present in LexisNexis Academic Tijdschrift Voor Rechtsgeschiedenis from 01/01/1997 to 10/14/2006 in SpringerLink Contemporary (1997 - Present) from 2003 to present in Kluwer Journals Online University of Chicago Legal Forum from 01/01/1993 to present in LexisNexis Academic University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender, and Class [NetLibrary] University of Ottawa Law and Technology Journal [NetLibrary]

Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology [NetLibrary] Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice [NetLibrary] World Competition from 2000 to present in Kluwer Law International

ONLINE RESOURCES

American Bar Association http://www.abanet.org/ American Law Institute http://www.ali-aba.org/ American Society for International Law Resource Guide http://www.asil.org/resource/treaty1.htm American Intellectual Property Law Association http://www.aipla.org/ International Legal Research http://spot.colorado.edu/~thompsje/intlaw.htm International Organizations http://www.lawresearch.com/v2/Ciorgs.htm International Organizations and United States Government Agencies Resources Pritzker Legal Resources http://www.law.northwestern.edu/lawlibrary/research/foreign/intlorgs.htm Internet Legal Resources http://lib.law.washington.edu/research/research.html Legal Research Using the Internet http://www2.lib.uchicago.edu/~llou/mpoctalk.html Legal Research Guide – Ethics Law http://www.virtualchase.com/topics/ethics.shtml Legal Research Guide – Securities Law http://www.virtualchase.com/topics/securities_law.shtml DM/2007