Law Research Guide
Law Research Guide
CRIMINAL JUSTICE ABSTRACTS Provides coverage in the areas of crime trends, victims, police and the courts, prevention and punishment. Includes materials from journals, books, and both governmental and non-governmental agencies.
INDEX TO LEGAL PERIODICALS A source of periodical citations in the law.
LEXIS-NEXIS ACADEMIC UNIVERSE is a full-text database providing comprehensive law, news and business information.
P.A.I.S INTERNATIONAL (Public Affairs Information Services Inc.) World-wide information concerning public and social policy, and the social sciences. Includes journal citation , books, government documents, non-government organization materials, statistics, reports. Note: All material not available at Fordham is available at the New York Public Library "Humanities & Social Sciences Library" (at 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue), home of P.A.I.S.
THOMAS Maintained by the Library
of Congress, the site contains a wealth of legislative information, and links to
all branches of the federal government.
The materials below
are located at either Quinn or Walsh Libraries.
Principal law holdings in the
Fordham Law School Library.
Black's
Law Dictionary. St. Paul: West Publishing Company,
Irregular.
(RH LC) Ref K13 . B5
Burton's Legal
Thesaurus. Burton, William C. New York: Macmillan Library Reference,
1998.
(LC) Ref K13 .B97 1998
Legal
Thesaurus. Burton, William. 2nd ed. . New York: Macmillan,
1992.
(LC )Ref K13B97 1992
Encyclopedia of
Crime & Justice. New York: Macmillan Reference USA,
2002.
(LC RH) +HV6017 .E52 2002
Encyclopedia of
Legal Information Sources: A Bibliographic Guide to
Approximately
19,000 Citations for Publications, Organizations, and Other
Sources of Information on
460 Law-Related
Subjects. Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research Co., 1988. (LC) Ref KB16
.E53 1988
Encyclopedia of the United States Congress. New York: Simon and Schuster. (LC ) Ref JK1067E63 1995
Historic U.S. Court Cases: An Encyclopedia. New York: Routledge, 2001. (LC) + KF385.A4 H57 2001
McKinney's Consolidated Law of New York, Annotated. St.
Paul, Minn.: West Group Annual.
(RH ) Ref
KA782.A43
McKinney's New York Civil Practice Law and Rules. St. Paul,
Minn.: West Group. Annotated
(RH LC ) Ref
KA782.A43
McKinney's New York Rules of Court, State and Federal. St.
Paul, Minn.: West Group Annual.
(LC ) Ref
KA782.A45
New York Family Law Statutes. New York, NY: Lexis Pub., 1999. (LC MM) Ref HQ1019.U6N44
The Oxford Handbook
of Criminology. Oxford, [England]; New York: Oxford University Press,
2002.
(LC RH) HV6025 .O87 2002
The Encyclopedia of American Crime. Sifakis, Carl. New York: Facts on File, 2001. (LC RH) HV6789 .S54 2001
West's Supreme
Court Reporter. St. Paul: West Publishing Company. "Cases decided by
the Supreme Court of the United States." (LC) JK1566.S78--Interim & Final
Editions--Current year in LC Ref.
FedWorld Information Network Access to hundreds of sources for information on the Federal Government.
Findlaw An easy-to-use, comprehensive, searchable directory of web sites on legal subjects, lawyers, law schools, and state and federal governments.
GPO Access Maintained by the Government Printing Office the sites searches legislative information, provides information on the latest activities in Congress, searches bills by House and Senate number and links to text of public laws.
University of Michigan Document
Center
A central reference point for governmental information -- local,
state, federal, or international.
Law
Links
Comprehensive legal resource center with subject
index as well as decisions, research & professional development.
The AVALON PROJECT at YALE LAW SCHOOL Digital version of documents in the to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy, and Government with links to supporting materials. This is an exemplary effort in bringing value to the web.
MARTINDALE-HUBBELL LAWYER LOCATOR is the online version of the famous Martindale-Hubbell print directory
WEST'S LEGAL DIRECTORY
A well designed site primarily designed to help you locate counsel in all areas
of law but also includes legal news.
EMORY U.S. FEDERAL COURTS FINDER
FINDLAW An easy-to-use, comprehensive, searchable directory of web sites on legal subjects, lawyers, law schools, and state and federal governments.
RECENT NEW YORK COURT of APPEALS DECISIONS Decisions from New York State's highest court.
RECENT SUPREME COURT DECISIONS Recent Court decisions.
USSC SUPREME COURT OPINIONS (1793-
)
Fordham University Law School Library
Cornell Law Library Cornell University Legal Information Institute
Villanova Center for Information Law and
Policy
Crime and Justice Electronic Data Abstracts Also form the Bureau of Justice statistics, this page contains information aggregated from crime and other data.
Federal Bureau of Investigation The official site of the FBI, a source of crime statistics.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service
National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center
State Tax Forms Access to State Tax forms online. The site is maintained by the Federation of Tax Administrators.
U.N. Criminal Justice Information Network Page
U.S. Patent & Trademark Office
U.S. Department of Justice Home
Page
This page is maintained by the Administrative
Office of the U.S. Courts and supplies information available to the public by
and about the federal court system.
Death Penalty Information and Resources
International Most Wanted List
National Archive of Criminal Justice Data
Police Officer's Internet Directory
American Society of
Criminology
European Union
Greenpeace
Institute for Law and
Justice
International Assoc.
of Women Police
National Center
for State Courts
National
Sheriffs' Association
New York State Bar
Association
RAND
National Labor Relations
Board
United Nations
American Civil Liberties Union Coverage of many of the civil liberty issues the ACLU is active in defending.
Amnesty International An international not-for-profit organization working to protect the rights of people worldwide.
Electronic Freedom Foundation New organization especially active in preserving freedom in the online environment.
Human Rights Internet An exceptionally complete and valuable site with many
partner links.
Law Library Resource
Exchange Way more than just an electronic journal and well
worth a visit.
Chris Flatz, Fordham University Libraries
Last Update: September 14, 2006