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Reference

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

  • American Jurisprudence,2d
    REF KF 154.A5
  • Ballentine's Law Dictionary
    REF KF 156 .H36 1994
  • Black's Law Dictionary
    REF KF 156.B53 1999
  • Corpus Juris Secundum
    REF KF 154.C6
  • Words and Phrases
    REF KF 156.W6

Legal Directories

  • United States Court Directory
    REF KF 8700.A19 U55

Citing Legal Resources

  • Bieber's Dictionary of Legal Citations
    REF KF 246.P73 1997
  • Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation
    REF KF 245.B58 1991

Maryland Law

Statutory and Regulatory

  • Annotated Code of Maryland (REF KFM 1230.A2)
  • Baltimore County Code (REF KF 127.M6)
  • Code of Maryland Regulations (COMAR) (REF KFM 1235.A22)
  • Maryland Register (shelved following COMAR)

Encyclopedias, Digests, Case Law, Citators

  • Maryland Law Encyclopedia (REF KFM 1265)
  • Maryland Reporter (REF KFM 1247)
  • Shepard's Maryland Case Names Citator (REF KFM 1259.S5)
  • Shepard's Maryland Citations (REF KFM 1259.S5)
  • West's Maryland Digest, 2d (REF KFM1247.1 .M21 1993)

Federal Law

Most of the material below and much more can be found on the Internet using Findlaw or Fedlaw.

Statutory and Regulatory

  • Code of Federal Regulations (Microfiche)
  • Federal Register (Microfiche)
  • U.S. Code Annotated (REF KF 621927.W45)
  • U.S. Code Congressional and Administrative News (REF KF 48.U5)

Case Law

  • Bankruptcy Court Decisions (REF KF 1519 .B34)
  • Federal Reporter, 2d through 4th Series (REF KF 115.F3)
  • Federal Supplement (REF KF 120.F4)
  • Supreme Court Reporter (REF KF 101.S8)
  • U.S. Law Week (REF KF 8741.A8U5)
  • U.S. Supreme Court Reports, L. Ed (REF KF 101.A313)

Digests, Law Reports

  • American Law Reports, Annotated 1st-2d (Microfiche)
  • American Law Reports, Annotated 3 d-5th 5th Series (REF KF 132)
  • Modern Federal Practice Digest (REF KF 127.M6)
  • West's Federal Practice Digest, 2d-4th (REF KF 127)

Periodicals

To locate titles of legal and law-related periodicals search the Catalog or use the Full-Text Journal Locator.

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The Index to Legal Periodicals (REF Z 6461.I5) indexes articles from leading law journals. Several of the library's databases such as Academic Search Complete provide indexing, abstracts and some full-text to many law reviews and journals. Further, the Lexis/Nexis Academic and WestlawNext databases make available the full-text of hundreds of legal and business periodicals.