Resources For Business Law Research Topics

Honnold/Mudd Library has a fairly comprehensive collection of resources for law and for business. Information ais provided below about selected resources.

Law Resources Meta-Web Sites
Secondary legal resources in paper and online
Legal resources in electronic format
U.S.Government Web Sites (Administrative Regulations)
State and Local Legal Resources
General Business Resources
Guide to citing law resources

• Findlaw

<http://www.findlaw.com/> This is a very useful comprehensive Web site that provides links to many
legal resources, most of which are free. Special site set up exactly like the general "Findlaw" for searching
California Law.
 
• Legal Information Institute of Cornell Law School

<http://www.law.cornell.edu/index.html> This site provides links to law resources arranged by type of
law, i.e. statutory, regulatory, and case law.
 
• Meta Index for U.S. Legal Research

<http://gsulaw.gsu.edu/metaindex/> (Georgia State University) This site also arranges information by
type of law, i.e. (branch of government), and has search engines for each section.
 
• Substantive Law on the Web

<http://www.macattorney.com/law.html> Nicely indexed, easy to use with categories by geographical
jurisdiction as well as selected subject areas.

Secondary Sources (Selected)

• Black's Law Dictionary.

Hon Ref KB 561 1968
Excellent source for definitions and translations of legal terminology.
 
• The Guide to American Law : Everyone's Legal Encyclopedia

Hon Ref KF 156 G77 1983
Excellent source of historical encyclopedic information on the law - updated by  West's Encyclopedia of American Law.
 
• West's Encyclopedia of American Law

Hon Ref Fol KF 154 W47 1998
Comprehensive source of information on the U.S. system of federal and state constitutions, statutes, regulations, and common-law decisions.
 
• Corpus Juris Secundum

Hon K C811S
A Complete Restatement of the Entire American Law. Has a general index and a loose-leaf translation table.
 
• United States Law Week

Hon Ref KF 175 U8x
Loose-leaf service that reports Federal Circuit and Supreme Court decisions weekly.

Law Reviews, etc.

• Academic Universe/Lexis/Nexis  Use for access to law journals such as the Harvard Law Review, UCLA Law Review, Administrative Law Review, etc. in the Law Review File for citations to as well as full-text law review articles.This resource is available outside the Libraries only to students, faculty and staff of The Claremont Colleges.

 
• FindLaw University Law Review Project:

<http://lawschools.findlaw.com/journals/> Law Schools: Academic Law Journals and Law Reviews.  Full Text Search of Law Journals on the Internet created by University Law Review Project and the E-Journals Coalition
 
• Westlaw Campus

<http://voxlibris.claremont.edu/research/databases/dbredirect/WestlawCampus.html>.
Westlaw Campus Provides full-text access to law cases, federal and state, legal subject guides, law reviews, statutes and administrative materials, legislative materials and legal encyclopedias. This resource is available outside the Libraries only to students, faculty and staff of The Claremont Colleges.

• Code of Federal Regulations.

Hon Ref US AE 2.106/3:1998
A compilation of final rules and regulations produced by executive branch agencies to elaborate on Public Laws, organized by subject matter in 50 "Titles" parallel to those of US Code (see above). Updated annually. (Also available on Academic Universe (Lexis/Nexis) and the Federal Bulletin Board). This resource is available outside the Libraries only to students, faculty and staff of The Claremont Colleges.
 
• The Federal Register.

Hon Gov US Microfiche GS 4.107:42
A daily compilation of Presidential Executive Orders, Proclamations and reorganization plans, as well as all rules and regulations proposed by executive branch agencies. Also contains notices of public meetings, hearings, etc. (Also available on Academic Universe (Lexis/Nexis) and the Federal Bulletin Board). This resource is available outside the Libraries only to students, faculty and staff of The Claremont Colleges.

• Lexis-Nexis Academic (formerly Academic Universe)

<http://voxlibris.claremont.edu/research/databases/dbredirect/AcademicUniverse.html >
There are legal resource files, which contain primary sources such as cases, statutes, and regulations as well as secondary materials such as law review articles etc. You may also telnet. This resource is available only to Claremont Colleges Students, Faculty and Staff on the Claremont Colleges Network.
 
• FindLaw University Law Review Project:

<http://lawschools.findlaw.com/journals/> Law Schools: Academic Law Journals and Law Reviews.  Full Text Search of Law Journals on the Internet created by University Law Review Project and the E-Journals Coalition
 
• GPO Access - U.S. Code, CFR, Federal Register, via GPO Access

<http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/databases.html>
United States Government Printing Office: Keeping America Informed. Provides links to GPO Access: sites for the U. S. Code, CFR, Federal Register, Congressional Records, bills, and GAO reports. Indexes federal government publications since January 1994 and will ultimately provide links to federal depository libraries receiving those publications. Available to all users.
 
• IndxLegalPer  [Index to Legal Periodicals]

<http://voxlibris.claremont.edu/research/databases/dbredirect/IndexLegalPer.html> [FirstSearch: August 1981-present; updated monthly. Provides access to citations to articles in over 260 legal journals, yearbooks, institutes, bar association organs, law reviews, and government publications worldwide from 1981-present; (1926-1994 in print)This resource is available outside the Libraries only to students, faculty and staff of The Claremont Colleges.]
 
• Thomas (House of Representatives through Library of Congress).

Includes: Bill Text, Congressional Record Text, Bill Summary & Status, Hot Bills, now called "Congress This Week" and "Major Legislation"), the Congressional Record Index, and the Constitution (now found, along with other historical Congressional documents, under the "Historical Documents" category on the THOMAS home page). Enhancements in the types of legislative data available, as well as in search and display capabilities, have been continuously added.
 
• Westlaw Campus

<http://voxlibris.claremont.edu/research/databases/dbredirect/WestlawCampus.html>.
Westlaw Campus Provides full-text access to law cases, federal and state, legal subject guides, law reviews, statutes and administrative materials, legislative materials and legal encyclopedias. Cases go back to 1945, and the Federal Register back to 1980. Key search allows searching by Westlaw's keynote system of indexing. This resource is available outside the Libraries only to students, faculty and staff of The Claremont Colleges.

• LSU's Comprehensive List of Federal Government Agencies

<http://www.lib.lsu.edu/gov/fedgov.html>. Search engine for U.S. Government Web sites with keyword search capability.

• Employment Standards Administration

<http://www.dol.gov/esa/welcome.html>

• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

<http://www.epa.gov/>

• Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS)

<http://www.ins.usdoj.gov/graphics/index.htm>

• Labor Dept

<http://www.dol.gov/dol/regs/main.htm>

• Securities and Exchange Commission

<http://www.sec.gov/rules.shtml>

• Findlaw (State Law Sites)

< http://www.findlaw.com/11stategov/index.html> This site allows searching by state for legal resources about or within that state.
 
• Municipal Codes Online

<http://www.spl.org/selectedsites/municode.html> In an effort to make municipal codes throughout the nation more accessible to the public, Seattle Public Library staff have prepared this list of links to city and county codes available for unrestricted searching on the World Wide Web.

• State and Local Government on the Net

<http://www.piperinfo.com/state/index.cfm>This web site is designed to provide easy access to state and local government information beginning with the state and proceeding to the county and city level.

• ABI/Inform Global

<http://voxlibris.claremont.edu/research/databases/dbredirect/ABIInform.html>(1985-present). For directory information in ABI Inform/Global, after searching for articles on a company or a subject, if there is a company name highlighted in red, that is a live link to a Hoovers Directory entry for the company. This resource is available outside the Libraries only to students, faculty and staff of The Claremont Colleges.
 
• Academic Universe/Lexis-Nexis

<http://voxlibris.claremont.edu/research/databases/dbredirect/AcademicUniverse.html> Lexis-Nexis provides full-text access to over one thousand news, business, and legal publications.  In Company News your search must include a company name.  For directory information, search Business - Company Financial - Hoovers. Directory type information is available in other files, but Hoovers' is strictly directory information. This resource is available outside the Libraries only to students, faculty and staff of The Claremont Colleges

• Dow Jones/Factiva Publications Library

<http://voxlibris.claremont.edu/research/databases/dbredirect/Factiva.html>This database provides full-text financial "snapshots' profiles, company screening reports, company/industry comparison reports and full-text SEC filings. We also haveaccess to some of the other "libraries in the database, and will soon have historical market data. This database is new beginning September 2000. This resource is available outside the Libraries only to students, faculty and staff of The Claremont Colleges. Internet Explorer 5.01 or higher must be used to access this database.

• General BusinessFile and Business and Company Resource Center

<http://voxlibris.claremont.edu/research/databases/dbredirect/GenBusFileCompResCtr.html>(1998- current) Directory information is available in several places. In Business and Company ResourceCenter, Directory Information is what appears when the "Company Profile" tab is selected. This resource is available outside the Libraries only to students, faculty and staff of The Claremont Colleges.
 
• Wall Street Journal Online

<http://voxlibris.claremont.edu/research/databases/dbredirect/WallStrJourOnline.html >(Full-text -1986-Present) Provides access to full-text version of The Wall Street Journal Eastern edition. For links to companies, when a company is mentioned in an article there is usually a link to an entry for Hoovers Online. Available only to users at the Claremont Colleges or connecting to a Claremont Colleges proxy server or modem pool.

• Brief Guide to Citing Government Information

<http://exlibris.memphis.edu/govpubs/citeweb.htm>
Government Information is cited differently from most other books and articles as there is what is called a "corporate author". For help with citing government information resources, the following site is extremely helpful.
 
• Introduction to Basic Legal Citation

<http://www2.law.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/foliocgi.exe/citation/query=*/doc/{t1}?>
This citation primer is based on the Sixteenth Edition of the "Bluebook." This document links, point by point, to the disk version of this material held on the LII's Folio Webserver. A few of the example links that are functional on disk do not work on the net.
 
• The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (via Peter W. Martin)

<http://www2.law.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/foliocgi.exe/Citation/query=*/doc/{@0}?firsthit> This citation primer is based on  the Sixteenth Edition of the "Bluebook." This document links, point by point, to the disk version of this material held on   the host sites' Folio Webserver.
 

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