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Encyclopedias
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United States:
- Ref KF4527 .U54 2004 The Constitution of the United Sates of America Analysis and Interpretation - provides detailed and in-depth discussion of Constitutional issues, illustrated and in relation to key Supreme Court cases. Online = http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CDOC-108sdoc17/pdf/CDOC-108sdoc17.pdf . 2010 Supplement = http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-CONAN-2010/pdf/GPO-CONAN-2010.pdf
- Ref KF4933 .Z9 D38 2007 Legislative Law and Process in a Nutshell
- Ref KF245 .U55 2005 The Bluebook: a Uniform System of Citation - citation guide for legal resources/documents. A quick guide to Bluebook citations is available from Newsbank.
- Ref KF4550 .T869 2009 The Constitution of the United States of America : a contextual analysis
- Ref KF8742 .A35 O93 2005 The Oxford companion to the Supreme Court of the United States -. Also online
- Ref KF154 .W47 2005 West's encyclopedia of American law
- Ref KF4548 .E53 2000 Encyclopedia of the American Constitution
- Ref KF4557 .C66 1999 The Constitution and its Amendments
- Ref KF154 .O96 2002 The Oxford companion to American law Also online.
- Ref KF4502 .F68 1987 The Founder's Constitution
- Ref KF220 .J64 2011 Trials of the Century: an Encyclopedia of Popular Culture and the Law
- Ref KF156 .B53 2009 Black's Law Dictionary
- Ref KF352 .C36 2008 A Cambridge History of Law in America
International:
- Concise Encyclopedia of the United Nations - Ref KZ4968 .L4913 2010
- Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law - Ref K48 .E42 2006
- Encyclopedia of Law & Society: American and Global Perspectives - Ref K583 .E53 2007
- Encyclopedia of the European Union
- Encyclopedia of the United Nations and International Agreements - Ref KZ4968 .O84 2002
- Handbook of International Law - Ref KZ1250 .R68 2009
- Historical Dictionary of the European Union - Ref JN15 .R75 2006
- International Law. A Dictionary - Ref KZ1161 .B63 2005
- Legal Systems of the World - Ref K48 .L44 2002
- Routledge Handbook of International Law - Ref KZ1250 .R68 2009
- Texts and Materials on International Human Rights - Ref K3240 .S57 2010
Research Guides
- ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources in International Law - Research guides from the American Association of International Law (ASIL). A good place to start research. Provides context for areas of international laws with links to legal documents, relevant websites, free databases (and some fee based), bibliographies and more.
- Human Rights
- International Commercial Arbitration
- International Criminal Law
- International Economic Law
- International Environmental Law
- International Intellectual Property Law
- International Organizations
- Private International Law
- Treaties
- United Nations
- These guides are supplemented by the Electronic Information System for International Law (EISIL), "a free online database that organizes and provides links to, and useful information on, web resources from the full spectrum of international law."
- Law Library Resources Xchang (LLRX) - Comparative and Foreign Law.
- Articles/Guides on specific countries.
- Guides on specific topics.
- Law School Guides for foreign, international and comparative law- provide context and useful links.
- New York University GlobaLex -advanced guides to specific topics in foreign/international/comparative law research
- Brooklyn Law School Library- Introduction to International Law Research
- Foreign & International Law Resources: An Annotated Guide to Web Sites Around the World - Harvard Law School Library
- Legal Research on International Law Issues Using the Internet - University of Chicago
- Rutgers Law Guide
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- LexisNexis Academic (linked from Electronic Resources by Title) - Contains Supreme Court decisions,
- Supreme Court Decisions - from 1937 to 1975 via FDsys
- U.S. Court Opinions- 2004 to the present.
- [Supreme Court
http://caselaw.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&navby=year]
- Official Supreme Court site
- European Court of Human Rights - home page
- European Court of Human Rights HUDOC - free online access to the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights, the European Commission of Human Rights and the Committee of Ministers. Type in the name of the plaintiff (first name that appears: smith v. adams) in the "Case Title" box and click search.
- International Court of Justice - Cases - "List of All Cases" is comprehensive.
- Permanent Court of International Justice
- Reports of International Arbitral Awards (RIAA) - search tip: don't know which volume to search? try searching "By State parties to a dispute" instead.
- International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
- European Court of Justice - search cases - search by "Names of parties:"
- EUR-Lex for European Union legislation and case law - registration is required, but access is free.
- High Court of Australia Judgements includes international cases
- Canada
- Hong Kong – Courts – Basic Law Decisions
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Supreme Court
- Official Supreme Court site
- LexisNexis Academic also provides Supreme Court decisions
- Vatican (Holy See) - The Roman Curia
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