WRIT 125-15: Privacy and the Law
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Reference Sources for Background Information
Biography Resource Center - Detailed profiles of prominent people in all fields of endeavor
Black's Law Dictionary - Clapp Ref KF156 .B53 2009. Also contained within Westlaw Campus Research. Click on the Law Tab and then Black's Dictionary on the left.
The Constitution and its Amendments. Clapp Ref KF4557 .C66 1999
Congressional Quarterly's Guide to the U.S. Supreme Court. Clapp Ref KF 8742 .W567 1997
Encyclopedia of the American Constitution. Clapp Ref KF 4548 E53 2000
How to Read a Legal Citation [Cleveland-Marshall College of Law]
The Justices of the United States Supreme Court 1789-1969. Clapp Ref KF 8744 F75 5 vols.
Supreme Court Justices. Clapp Ref KF 8744 S86 1993
West's Encyclopedia of American Law. An electronic book; legal encyclopedia in lay person's terms
U. S. Reports. Clapp Docs KF 101 A2
Cite example: 511 U.S. 93 (511 refers to the volume number, U.S. is the abbreviation
for the official set of Supreme Court reports, and 93 refers to the page number).
This is the legally accepted version of a case. We have the complete set of U.S. Reports.
LexisNexis Academic Legal Research
- Default screen brings you into law reviews. Look on the left side for links to federal and state cases.
- The most precise way to search for a case is to search by citation number.
- Searching by Case name will bring up any lower court decisions.
- You can email yourself citations or the full text of the article. You can also mark records and print or email yourself the list of marked records.
- To search cases and law reviews at the same time, use this link, and put a check in the box beside Legal. The left column of your results list will show your results sorted by source type.
Westlaw Campus Research - legal encyclopedias and legal analysis, federal and state court cases and statutes, and law reviews (900+ titles). Includes American Jurisprudence and American Law Reports. Westlaw appears to have more Supreme Court briefs than LexisNexis, and also has citing references for law review articles. Westlaw may have briefs that L/N doesn't.
- Click on the Legal Tab
- Search by citation or search by case name
United States Court System - links to U.S. Supreme Court, Courts of Appeal, District Courts, and Bankruptcy Courts.
LexisNexis Academic Legal Research - full text of law review articles 1980s+ .
- Default screen brings you into law reviews. Look on the left side for links to federal and state cases.
- Default search is Terms and Connectors. Searching by natural language and automatic sorting by relevance lists the best articles first.
- Search example using Terms and Connectors:
- atl5(buffer zones) w/p atl4(abortion clinics) Translation: buffer zones mentioned at least 5 times within the same paragraph as abortion clinics mentioned at least 4 times. Results will be sorted by publication date, re-sort by relevance.
- search for your terms in the title of the law review. Click on Show Options to Search Specific Document Sections and choose title from the drop down box.
- You can search for either the plaintiff's or the defendent's name in the title along with a a keyword about the case
- Re-sort your results by relevance
- To narrow the results you already have, use the "Focus" button at the top right of the results page.
- You can email yourself citations or the full text of the article. You can also mark records and print or email yourself the list of marked records.
- To search cases and law reviews at the same time, use this link, and put a check in the box beside Legal. The left column of your results list will show your results sorted by source type.
- Click on the Law Tab and check the box that says Journals and Law Reviews. Select all states.
- To construct specific searches
- search example: TI(abortion) and TI(minors). abortion and minors mentioned in the title
- search example: abortion w/s minors. abortion and minors mentioned in the same sentence
- There is no way to sort results by relevance
- You can Search in Results to narrow your search
Find Newspapers Articles - remember you want articles contemporary to the time of your case
LexisNexis Academic News - Full text of news article (about 1990 onward) from major papers, worldwide papers, and United States city papers.
- to search for legal news exclusively, choose "Legal News Group File" from the Select Sources box
- the terms and connectors search allows you to search in the headline and lead paragraph of the document, search by byline, or search for your terms mentioned more than once.
- you can also add length> to search for more substantial stories
- note default date for news is 3 months
- you can add another search box (to add more search terms) by clicking the "more" link at the bottom of the boxes
Westlaw Campus Research - Full text of news article (about 1990 onward) from major papers, worldwide papers, and United States city papers.
- you can check the box that limits your search to the headline and the lead paragraph
- you can limit to specific dates
- You can limit your search to Publication Type: Newspapers
- results are sorted by date, with most recent first. You can re-sort by publication name or article name, but not by relevance
Boston Globe 1872-1926, 1980 to present
paper = kept until microfilm received; located in Clapp Reading Room
Chicago Defender Online, 1905-1975, one of America's leading African-American newspapers
Chicago Tribune Historical, 1849-1986
Los Angeles Times Online 1881-1986; 1985 to present (text only, no images)
New York Times
paper = kept until microfilm received; located
in Clapp Reading Room
online = LexisNexis Academic, June 1, 1980+; New York Times
Online , 1851-2001
Wall Street Journal Online 1986+ (text only, no images)
paper = paper kept until microfilm received; located in Clapp Reading Room
Washington Post Online, 1877-1993; 1977 to present
Remember: if you find the full text online, you must cite the online source. Look for information within our Wellesley databases, or electronic books, on how to cite what you find.
MLA handbook for writers of research papers. Clapp Ref LB 2369 .G53 2003
Writers' Workshop MLA Style Handbook
Frequently Asked Questions about MLA Style
Documenting Electronic Resources in MLA or APA - includes instructions and examples for email, databases, CD-ROMs, and Web Sites
Prince's Bieber Dictionary of Legal Citations. 6th ed. Clapp Ref
KF 246 P73 2001
Detailed examples for citing from specific law journals and U.S. and state
statutes, and how to understand legal citations.
To find more legal web resources look at the Research Resources for Legal Studies page.