Category: Legal Education

  • Legal concepts

    Legal concepts in the United States The legal concepts change with the legal history. There are developments in the theories and concepts of law (including in separate doctrinal areas) over the past  decades which have effect in the tort, contract, crime, property and administrative law. […]

  • Legal subjects

    Legal subjects in the United States List of legal subjects proposed by the Encyclopedia: Academic list: Administrative Law Administrative Law Admiralty & Maritime Advanced Legal Concepts Advanced Legal Research (Year) Advocacy Agency law Agriculture Law Alternative Dispute […]

  • Schools of legal theories

    Schools of legal theories in United States Law has different meanings as well as different functions. Philosophers have considered issues of justice and law for centuries, and several different approaches, or schools of legal thought, have emerged. In this chapter, we will look at those […]

  • How to search legal journal indexes?

    How to search legal journal indexes? in the United States The recommended method for finding law journal articles is to use an index. Indexes allow searching by author, title, subject, and keyword. Many also include abstracts of articles, and online indexes usually link to the full-text of […]

  • American Jurisprudence (encyclopedia)

    American Jurisprudence (encyclopedia) in United States American Jurisprudence (encyclopedia) American Jurisprudence (Am. Jur.) is, the other popular United states legal encyclopedia Corpus Juris Secundum, also now published by West and is a very practice oriented encyclopedia that is less […]

  • History of International Law

    History of International Law in United States History of International Law Bibliography Reference works •Grewe, W.G., Fontes Historiae Iuris Gentium / Wilhelm G. Grewe, 1995 •Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d’histoire du droit international •Orakhelashvili, A. […]

  • Lawyer´s history

    Lawyer´s history in the United States Ancient Greece The earliest people who could be described as lawyers were probably the orators of ancient Athens (see History of Athens). However, Athenian orators faced serious structural obstacles. First, there was a rule that individuals were […]

  • Low cost Internet Legal Research

    Low cost internet US Legal Research in the United States The following guide describes selected online resources useful for researching U.S. federal and some State (such California) law. For resources that are freely available via the Internet, see here. Judicial (cases, dockets, rules of […]

  • Legal Education future

    Legal Education future in United States THE FUTURE OF LEGAL EDUCATION, by John Mayer(1) All the notions we thought solid, all the values of civilised life, all that made for stability in international relations, all that made regularity in the economy…in a word, all that tended happily […]

  • US Academic Law Libraries

    United States Academic Law Libraries A – C University of Akron Law Library University of Alabama Law Library Albany Law School, Schaffer Law Library American University, Washington College of Law Library Appalachian School of Law Library University of Arizona Law Library Arizona […]

  • Private international law resources

    Private international law resources in the United States Research guides ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law: Private International Law. A guide to Web sources mostly limited to multilateral treaty regimes. Jonathan Pratter & Joseph R. Profaizer, A practitioner’s […]

  • International economic law sources

    International economic law sources in United States International economic law sources Some of these sources pertain specifically to international economic law.  Others do not, but offer sufficient general applicability or overlap to warrant attention. Research guides ASIL Guide to […]

  • Court library

    Courts libraries or Court library in the United States In the law world, a Court library is a law library located in a courthouse, maintained for the use of judges, courthouse staff, lawyers and their clients, and members of the public, for example, the library of the US Supreme Court. […]

  • Law library

    Law library in United States Law library or Law Libraries A law library is a type of special library with a collection consisting primarily of materials for legal research and study, including case law, federal and state statutes, international legal agreements, treatises, reference works, […]

  • Thesaurus

    Thesaurus in the United States A Thesaurus is an online database or a book of synonyms and near-synonyms in a written language, usually arranged conceptually, although dictionary arrangement is not uncommon. The first thesaurus of the English language, published in 1852, was compiled by Peter […]