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Electronic Databases
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Subject areas include administrative law, antitrust legislation, banking, constitutional law, domestic relations, environmental protection, estate planning, food, drug and cosmetic law, international law, labor law, landlord/tenant decisions, malpractice suits, minorities, multinational corporations, negligence, non-profit corporations, occupational health and safety, politics, probate, products liability, public law, real property, securities, tax law, and trade regulation. Full text coverage begins in 1994.
Indexes major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals, and international legal journals.
Accesses over a billion full text news, magazine, legal, and business articles and reports, including newspapers, magazines and government documents, state and federal laws and regulations, case law, newsletters, company and industry information.
Provides the tools for searching the Congressional record, tracking proposed legislation by keyword and sponsor, searching Congressional hearings, the Federal register, Congressional committee schedules, finding members of Congress, and searching the National journal.
A web-based legal research tool for undergraduate and graduate students who need to research law-related issues. This resource includes access to the complete laws and statutes of the federal government and all 50 states, federal regulations, precedent-setting court decisions, KeyCite, American Law Reports, American Jurisprudence, and current and archived articles from hundreds of leading law reviews and journals.
Journals
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ABA Journal. Electronic Holdings: 1982-Current. Print Holdings: 1984-2004.
- Call Number: K1 .A50
Location: Boca Raton
Columbia Law Review. Electronic Holdings: 1901-Current. Print Holdings: 1960-2004.
- Call Number: K3 .C65
Location: Boca Raton
Florida Bar Journal. Electronic Holdings: 1995-Current. Print Holdings: 1959-1966, 1975-2004.
- Call Number: KFF332.A15F56
Location: Boca Raton
Journal of Legal Studies. Electronic Holdings: 1972-Current.
Law and Contemporary Problems. Electronic Holdings: 1995-Current. Print Holdings: 1933-2004.
- Call Number: K12.L37
Location: Boca Raton
Finding Resources in the Library
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Subject Sections
Constitutional Law--United States
- Call Number: KF4550
Corporation Law
- Call Number: K1315
Florida Law
- Call Number: KFF25
Subject Terms
- Commercial law
- Constitutional law
- Courts
- Law and legislation
- Law--United States
Resources By Library
Boca Raton
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Black's law dictionary. Garner, B.A. (ed).1999.
- Call Number: REF KF156 .B53 1999
Format: Book
Courts and trials: a reference handbook. Smith, C. 2003
- Call Number: REF KF8719 .S552 2003
Format: Book
Encyclopedia of the American constitution. Levy, L.W. (ed). 2000.
- Call Number: REF KF4548 .E53 2000
Format: Book
Encyclopedia of American law. Schultz, D. (ed). 2002.
- Call Number: REF KF154 .E528 2002
Format: Book
Historic U.S. court cases: an encyclopedia. Johnson, J.W. (ed). 2001.
- Call Number: REF KF385 .A4 H57 2001
Format: Book
Legal systems of the world: a political, social, and cultural encyclopedia. Kritzer, J. (ed). 2002.
- Call Number: REF KF48 .L44 2002
Format: Book
Legal terminology explained. Nolfi, E.A. 2008.
- Call Number: REF KF156 .N65 2008
Format: Book
Official Florida statutes. 2008.
- Call Number: REF KFF30 .A2 F55
Format: Book
Oxford companion to American law. Hall, K.L. (ed). 2002.
- Call Number: REF KF154 .O96 2002
Format: Book
Southern reporter & 2d series: cases argued and determined in the courts of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi. 1941-
- Call Number: REF KF135 .S78
Format: Book
Jupiter
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Courts and trials: a reference handbook. Smith, C.E. 2003.
- Call Number: REF KF8719 .S552 2003
Format: Book
Environmental law handbook. Government Institutes. 2005.
- Call Number: REF KF4110.3 .U15 2004
Format: Book
Florida administrative practice. Florida Bar. 2001.
- Call Number: REF KF440 .F553 2001
Format: Book
Historic U.S. court cases: an encyclopedia. Johnson, J.W. (ed). 2001.
- Call Number: REF KF385 .A4 H57 2001
Format: Book
Labor, employment, and the law: a dictionary. Anglim, C.T. 1997.
- Call Number: REF KF3317 .A54 1997
Format: Book
Law and anthropology. Mundy, M. 2002.
- Call Number: REF K487 .A57 L382 2002
Format: Book
Legal systems of the world: a political, social, and cultural encyclopedia. Kritzer, H.M. 2002.
- Call Number: REF KF48 .L44 2002
Format: Book
Oran's dictionary of the law. 2000.
- Call Number: REF KF156 .O69 2000
Format: Book
Oxford Companion to American law. Hall, K. L. (ed). 2002.
- Call Number: REF KF154 .O96 2002.
Format: Book
Prince's Bieber dictionary of legal citations. Prince, M.M. (ed). 2001.
- Call Number: REF KF246 .P73 2001
Format: Book
Treasure Coast
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Black's law dictionary. Black, H.C. 1999.
- Call Number: REF KF156 .B53 1999
Format: Book
Deskbook encyclopedia of employment law. Oakstone Legal & Business Pub. 2002.
- Call Number: REF KF3314 .D47 2002.
Format: Book
Employer's legal handbook. Steingold, F.S. 1999.
- Call Number: REF KF3455.Z9 .S74 1999
Format: Book
Handbook of criminal law terms. Garner, B.A. 2000.
- Call Number: REF KF9217 .H36 2000
Format: Book
Historic U.S. court cases: an encyclopedia. Johnson, J.W. (ed). 2001.
- Call Number: REF KF385 .A4 H57 2001
Format: Book
Nurse's legal handbook. Springhouse Corp. 2000.
- Call Number: REF RT86.7 .N88 2000
Format: Book
Nurse practitioner's legal reference. Springhouse Corp. 2001.
- Call Number: REF RT82.8 .N8646 2001
Format: Book
Oxford Companion to American law. Hall, K. L. (ed). 2002.
- Call Number: REF KF154 .O96 2002.
Format: Book
Random House Webster's dictionary of the law. Clapp, J.E. 2000.
- Call Number: REF KF156 .C57 2000
Format: Book
West's encyclopedia of American law. West Pub. Co. 1998.
- Call Number: REF KF154 .W47 1998.
Format: Book
Selected Web Sites
Provided by the Florida Bar and arranged by area of law.
Introduction to Basic Legal Citation (2006 ed.) by Peter W. Martin (Cornell Law School)
Online reference by Peter W. Martin at the Cornell Law School which has been recently updated to reflect the changes in the Eighteenth Edition of the "Bluebook."
The Legal Education Network. Excellent resource for students and professors.
Portal for legal resources from the Cornell law School
Comprehensive site which provides information on all aspects on international commercial law.
About this Guide
This guide was designed by Bruce Barron to help identify resources on legal resources and related topics in the FAU Libraries. The electronic resources are available from the FAU Libraries home page by following the links entitled Indexes/ Databases or Articles. Some of these resources have full-text articles available online. To access these resources from off campus, use the Off Campus Connect (EZproxy) link and log in using your 14-digit Owl Card number and your 4-digit birth month and day in the format "MMDD." For further assistance, please contact the Reference Desk by telephone (561-297-3785) or send e-mail to lyref@fau.edu.
Created 17 December 2008
