Research Guide for Sociology of Law

Encyclopedias

• Landmark Supreme Court Cases
  REF KF 4549.L58 1999 (print only)
• Illustrated Great Decisions of the Supreme Court
  REF KF4549.M334 2000 (print only)
• Great American Court Cases
  REF KF 385.A4 G68 1999 (4 volumes, print only)
• Encyclopedia of Sociology
  See entry on Law and Society, and Law and Legal Systems.
• New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
  See entry on Law.
• Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online
  Numerous entries on law, among them Social Theory and Law, Natural Law, Philosophy of Law, Law and Morality, and Natural Law.
• Oxford Companion to American Law
• Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States
• Oxford Guide to United States Supreme Court Decisions
• West's Encyclopedia of American Law
• Black's Law Dictionary
• Reference Universe
  Provides indexing of more than 12,000 electronic and print reference works matched to Falvey Library's collection. The results of a successful search include the call number of the book and on which page there is information on the topic and in some cases a link to the appropriate page in an e-book.

Books

• Vufind
  The Library's online catalog
• WorldCat
  A catalog of library holdings worldwide. WorldCat will indicate any local library holdings and also offers an inter-library loan request option.
• Dissertations & Theses Full Text
  A comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses with over 2.4 million dissertations and theses included from around the world. Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637, and full text is available from 1997 on.
• E-Z Borrow and Interlibrary Loan
  Interlibrary loan is available for books and journals that are not owned by Falvey. EZ-Borrow is usually faster than interlibrary loan, since the books come from a local library network. EZ-Borrow can be used for books that the Library owns, but that are currently checked out by somebody else.

Scholarly Journal Articles

• Sociological Abstracts
• Criminal Justice Abstracts
  Criminal Justice Abstracts covers crime trends, crime prevention and deterrence, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, police, courts, punishment and sentencing. The database contains indexes and summaries of international journal articles, books, and governmental and non-governmental reports on a wide range of topics in criminal justice.
• HeinOnline
  This legal database provides fully-searchable and image-based text of over 500 law journals, Supreme Court Reports, Treaties in Force, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents (1977-2003) and the Federal Register (1936-1994).
• Lexis Nexis Academic
  Provides full-text access to a wide range of news (national, international, regional, business, legal, and foreign language), business (company financial news and information, accounting, auditing & tax information, industry and market news), and legal (law reviews, federal case law, state legal research) sources. It also features news transcripts, the U.S. Code, Constitution & Court rules, state and country profiles, medical abstracts, and reference & directory sources.
• Philosopher's Index
  Indexes and abstracts books and more than 480 journals of philosophy and related fields in many languages.
• Academic OneFile

 Please contact your librarian for further database recommendations.

Legal Information

• U.S. Supreme Court Opinions
  Published by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School.
• Supreme Court Yearbook
• Lexis Nexis Academic
  Provides full-text access to a wide range of news (national, international, regional, business, legal, and foreign language), business (company financial news and information, accounting, auditing & tax information, industry and market news), and legal (law reviews, federal case law, state legal research) sources. It also features news transcripts, the U.S. Code, Constitution & Court rules, state and country profiles, medical abstracts, and reference & directory sources.
• Congressional (Lexis Nexis)
  Provides access to every facet of U.S. Legislative activity: hearings transcripts and submitted testimony, committee reports, bills, public laws, congressional member public interest group ratings, selected committee prints, congressional documents, the Congressional Record, the Federal Register, the Code of Federal Regulations, and the U.S. Code.
• The Library's Own Legal Writing Guide
• A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1874.
  Library of Congress digital collection.
• "With an Even Hand." Brown v. Board at 50.
  Library of Congress online exhibition.

Style Guides and Citation Management Software

• Research and Documentation Online.
  Guide to the major documentation styles
• Introduction to basic legal citation
  Written by Peter W. Martin of Cornell University, this is a guide to the Harvard Bluebook and ALWD citation manuals.
• Refworks
  Never type a bibliography again! RefWorks will help you easily gather, manage, and store bibliographic citations for all types of information, as well as generate footnotes and bibliographies.