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Lexis-Nexis: Legal

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Primary and Secondary Sources in Law

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General Business Law Resources

Black's Law Dictionary
Call number: R 340.03 B56g 2004
Standard source for definitions of legal terms.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary of Law
Online edition of law dictionary
Martindale-Hubbell Law Digest
Call Number: R. 340.025 M36md
Arranged by state and subject/area of law, with summaries of laws and citations to relevant code. Also includes US patent, copyright, and trademark law
Martindale-Hubbell International Law Digest
Call Number: R. 340.025 M36mid
Same as above, but for international law.
Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory
Call number: R. 340.025 M36m
Virtually every attorney and law firm in the US' - contact info, degrees, areas of specialty, publications indexed by name, entries by firm/practice.
Martindale-Hubbell International Law Directory
Call number: R. 340.025 M36mi
Same as above on international level.
Legal Information Institute
Cornell University's extremely useful guide to law and legal resources. Browse the site to find brief articles on legal topics and areas of law, alongside links to the relevant statutes, regulations and court decisions.
West's Encyclopedia of American Law
Call Number: R. 348.7303 W52
Twelve-volume encyclopedia of law. Gives references to specific landmark cases. Organized by subject. With bibliographies, citations, index, index of citations.
American Law Yearbook
Call number: R. 348.7303 W52a
Annually-updated supplements to West's Encyclopedia of American Law.
The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation
Call number: R. 349.730148 B62c 2000
Guide to citing legal sources.
Guide to Law Online
Law Library of Congress's guide to reliable legal information freely available on the internet.
FindLaw
Extremely thorough index providing links to legal resources on the web.
Washlaw: Legal Information Online
Extensive index providing links to legal resources on the web. From Washington University.
ABA Journal
Link to library holdings of ABA Journal.
American Journal of Legal History
Link to library holdings of the American Journal of Legal History.