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General National Materials: Corpus Juris Secundum or American Jurisprudence, 2d |
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Dictionaries: A legal dictionary
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Annotated Reports: American Law Reports - Federal American Law Reports, 4th and 5th |
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American Law Institute Publications: Model Codes, Reports and Drafts Restatements of the Law, Reports and Drafts |
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Forms of Pleading and Practice and Legal Forms: CA Judicial Council Forms Current set of CA forms Current set of Federal Forms |
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Uniform Laws Annotated |
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CA Materials: -CA Supreme Court case reports (official or unofficial) -CA Appellate Courts case reports (official or unofficial -West Digest -CA Jurisprudence 3rd -Wests or Deering’s -Annotated Codes, including indices -CA Jury Instructions, -Civil and Criminal -Law Commission Reports -Attorney General Opinions -CA Code of Regulations |
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Federal Materials: United States Supreme Court cases, any set Federal Reporter, 1st – 3rd Federal Supplement Federal Rules Decisions Tax Court Cases Board of Tax Appeals decisions Federal Digest Supreme Court Digest Annotated edition of US Code United States Statutes at Large Code of Fed Regulations Loose leaf Tax Service |
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National Reporter System (1st to date for all) Atlantic Reporter New York Official Reports Northeastern Rept Northwestern Rept Pacific Rept Southwestern Rept Southern Rept Southeastern Rept |
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Text and Treatises Encyclopedia, treatises, or current text for all bar tested courses taught Witkin, Summary of CA Law Witkin, CA Procedure Witkin, CA Criminal Law Witkin, CA Evidence
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Law Reviews and Journals |
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Other Resources: Current Law Index or Index to Legal Periodicals Local county and city ordinances Local Municipal Codes Legislative history – United States Code Congressional and Administrative News (USCCAAN) Local Court Rules
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Cite Checking Resources: Shepard’s Citation Service or Westlaw KeyCite
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To see all NU Library Databases, go to the A-Z Database List.
Content: Material from Federal, State, international, and private sources related to security policy, strategy, and management. The content is primarily current with some historical material.
Purpose: Informs users about current topics related to homeland security and national defense.
Special Features: Informs users about current topics related to homeland security and national defense
Content: Contains resources for research on national security. Topics include regional conflicts, civil liberties, criminal justice, disaster & recovery, public health threats, cyber security, risk management, bio-terrorism, and more.
Purpose: Provides users with information and resources relevant to many topics pertaining to international security and terrorism
Special Features: Includes a tool for discovering citing articles, a browsable index of subject terms, and text-to-speech feature for some articles.
Content: Database supporting business and legal research.
Purpose: News, journals, and company profiles and directories for both public and private companies.
Special Features: U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to the 1790s, New York Times articles, Cases, Law Reviews, Company & Country Information, and much more.
Content: Law school students only. Primary and analytical law sources, news, trade publications, company information, and more.
Purpose: Use to search legal cases, codes, and other information.
Content: Traditional legal materials (reported cases, statutes, government regulations, academic law reviews, commercially produced law journals and magazines, and classic treatises), historical, governmental, and political documents, legislative debates, legislative and executive branch reports, world constitutions, international treaties, and reports and other documents of international organizations.
Purpose: Informs users about a broad range of legal and governmental topics.
Special Features: Users can narrow by topic and subject and may also search particular databases.