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Law Research Resources

Introduction
General Reference
Laws and Regulations
U.S. Courts
Kansas Statutes and Cases
WWW Resources on Law
Pre-Law Student Information

Introduction

Information on the many topics included within the general subject of law may be found in books, magazine or journal articles, and in campus computer networked resources or the free and visible parts of the World Wide Web. Many indexes useful in finding information on these topics are not specialized for law.

Following is information on resources specific to Law.

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General Reference and Directories

Reference Books

West's Encyclopedia of American Law. Minneapolis/St. Paul: West Publishing, 1997. R 348.7303 W538

Encyclopedia of the American Constitution. New York: Macmillan, 1986. R 342.7302303 E56

The Oxford companion to the Supreme Court of the United States. New York : Oxford University Press, 1992. Call no. R 347.73 H177o

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Laws and Regulations

Use Lexis-Nexis to find laws, court cases, regulations, and law review articles. However, it is available only on the GCCC campus at Garden City.

U.S. Federal law -- U.S. Government Printing Office, see links to Bills, Laws of the U.S., U.S. Code, and the Code of Federal Regulations)
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/index.html

U.S. State and Federal laws -- use Lexis-Nexis to find laws, court cases, regulations, and law review articles. However, it is available only on the GCCC campus at Garden City.

Links to many free sources of laws and regulations, state and federal, are provided by the law library of Washburn University
http://www.washlaw.edu/

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Courts

All Courts, U.S. and State

Use Lexis-Nexis to find laws, court cases, regulations, and law review articles. However, it is available only on the GCCC campus at Garden City.

Links to many free sources of access to court decisions and rules, state and federal, are provided by the Law Library of Washburn University
http://www.washlaw.edu/

Supreme Court of the U.S.

Supreme Court Web Site http://www.supremecourtus.gov/

Web Guide to U.S. Supreme Ct. Research http://www.llrx.com/features/supremectwebguide.htm

Current docket and case information, Transcripts of Arguments  (Northwestern U. Schl. of Journalism)
http://journalism.medill.northwestern.edu/docket/

Selected historic decisions at Cornell U. WWW site
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/cases/historic.htm

Oyrz  (Audio recordings of Arguments before the Supreme Court of the U.S.)
http://www.oyez.org/oyez/frontpage

U.S. Circuit Courts and District Courts

See Lexis-Nexis above

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Kansas

Statutes and Regulations

Kansas Statutes Annotated . Topeka: State Printer, 1964-. (Call no. R 345.2 C81t)

Kansas Legislature Page (See Bills and Statutes)
http://www.kslegislature.org/

See Lexis-Nexis above.

Kansas Court Decisions

Kansas Judicial Branch Page (See published opinions)
http://www.kscourts.org/

Kansas Court decisions are published in print for various periods in Kansas Cases and the Pacific Reporter, both from the West Publishing Co. and in the official series, Kansas Reports. They are not available in print format at GCCC.

See Lexis-Nexis above.

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WWW Resources on Law

Washburn University Law School Legal Information Portal
http://washlaw.edu/

FindLaw site: http://www.findlaw.com/

Yahoo law site: http://www.yahoo.com/Law/

Pre-Law Information

Washlaw Washburn University School of Law Pre-Law Links
http://www.washlaw.edu/subject/prelegal.html

University of Kansas Pre-Law Links
http://www.ku.edu/~advising/prelaw/

Find Law Pre-Law Links
http://stu.findlaw.com/prelaw/

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