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REFERENCE BOOKS

• Tennessee Code Annotated, 1955- . R345.12 T295
• A Dictionary of Law. Oxford University Press, 2003. Oxford Reference Online eBook
• Encyclopedia of American law. Facts on File, 2002. R349.73 E528
• The Oxford companion to American law. Oxford University Press, 2002. R349.73 O96
• Historic U.S. court cases: an encyclopedia. 2 vol., Routledge, 2001. R349.72 J64
• Criminal justice. 3 vol., Salem Press, 2006. R345.73 C75 2006
• Profiling and criminal justice in America: a reference handbook. ABC-CLIO. R363.23 B86 2004
• Gay rights and American law. Cambridge University Press. R342.73 P56 2003

DATABASES

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PERIODICALS

Find Journals on Law, available in print at Plough Library and/or online through CBU databases.

WEBSITES

General | Criminal Justice | Business Law

-- GENERAL

• American Bar Association
• FindLaw: FindLaw provides the most comprehensive set of legal resources on the Internet for legal professionals, corporate counsel, law students, businesses, and consumers. These resources include Web search utilities, cases and codes, legal news, an online career center, and more.
• Guide to Law Online: The Guide to Law Online, prepared by the U.S. Law Library of Congress Public Services Division, is an annotated guide to sources of information on government and law available online. It includes selected links to useful and reliable sites for legal information.
• Finding Court Opinions On The Web: Presented by the National Law Journal and adapted from The Best and Worst Legal Sites on the Web, a book written by Robert J. Ambrogi, the site serves as a gateway to resources on Supreme, circuit, and district court links, as well as presents courts and cases on a state-by-state basis. Copyright Internet Scout Project, 1994-2002. http://scout.wisc.edu/
• THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet: Launched in January of 1995 to make federal legislative information freely available to the public, THOMAS includes: Bills & Resolutions, Activity in Congress, Congressional Record, Schedules & Calendars, Committee Information, Presidential Nominations, and Treaties.
• Everybody's Legal Glossary: This glossary contains plain-English definitions for hundreds of legal terms, from the common to the bizarre.

  Local

• Tennessee Code Annotated: This free version of the code provides the text of the statutes only, without summaries of related case law or references to helpful secondary materials.
• Tennessee Court Rules
• Resources by Jurisdiction - Tennessee: from FindLaw
• Shelby County Code of Ordinances
• Memphis Code of Ordinances

-- CRIMINAL JUSTICE

• National Criminal Justice Reference Service: NCJRS is a federally funded resource offering justice and substance abuse information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide. Search full-text documents and web links from U.S. government agencies.
• Corrections Library: National Institute of Corrections' Digital Resource Library provides access to resources targeted toward corrections practitioners and research. Offers online publications on offender reentry among other topics.
• CrimDoc (Criminology Library Grey Literature): Comprises the "grey literature" from the field of Criminology, as well as other related areas of specialization, including criminal justice, penology and corrections, juvenile deliquency/young offenders, policing and law enforcement, and private policing. Housed in the Univ. of Toronto Centre of Criminology Library, this file is composed of institute, association, and government publications, as well as unpublished papers, working papers, research reports, etc.
• VictimLaw: VictimLaw is a comprehensive database of victims’ rights statutes, tribal laws, constitutional amendments, court rules, administrative code provisions, and case summaries of related court decisions.
• Federal Bureau of Prisons: Official website of the agency that oversees Federal corrections institutions (part of the U.S. Department of Justice).

-- BUSINESS LAW

• Business.gov: This government site for small business provides a wealth of information and guides on licensing, financing, and starting your own business. Overseen by the Small Business Administration General Counsel, it provides a gateway to federal, state, and local information, with links to online forms needed for filing licenses and other information.
• Cornell Law School - Commercial Law: Cornell Law Schools' public access law dictionary and encyclopedia. Collaboratively created by users and overseen by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University. Links for commercial and business law. Includes links for the complete Uniform Commercial Code, which governs business law in most states
• ABA Business Law: Provides information/services to section members, law students, businesses, and the general public about business law. Includes free full text of Business Law Today, a news magazine for business lawyers.