Social Science Librarian
Stephen (Social Sciences) Woods
He/him/his
Contact:
Office: 208 Paterno Library, University Park
Phone: 814.865.0665
Legal Encyclopedias
Legal encyclopedias provide discussions of legal topics. Annotations included with each entry refer to court case reporters, statutes, and digests of court cases.
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Corpus juris secundum"A contemporary statement of American law as derived from reported cases and legislation." Organized into more than 400 topics, arranged alphabetically.
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Westlaw Campus Research - Law This link opens in a new windowTo search select secondary sources this will allow you to search American Law Reports (ALR), American Jurisprudence and other resources from states and subject law materials.. Related content will allow you to search an online version of Blacks Law Dictionary.
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Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window- Click on Search by Subject or Topic in the upper right corner of the screen
- Choose just Legal Reference
- Choose Advanced Options Directly below the search box
- Choose American Jurisprudence
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Pennsylvania Law EncyclopediaMuch like Corpus Juris Secundum for Pennsylvania law.
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West's Encyclopedia of American LawWritten for those who are not familiar with legal jargon, providing about 5000 articles in non-technical language; arranged alphabetically.
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Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new windowincludes a number of legal encyclopedias and dictionaries, including the Oxford Companion to American Law, Oxford Dictionary of Law, Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States, and the Oxford Guide to United States Supreme Court Decisions.