Here is a new, updated edition of the popular legal research tool depended upon by thousands of legal students, law professors, law librarians, practitioners and paralegals. Greatly simplifying and streamlining the search for legal materials, it serves the law student who needs a starting point or bibliography to do research, the lawyer or paralegal who has a case on a subject that is new, and the experienced practitioner who may have missed a publication on a well-known topic. Professors should find "Searching the Law" locates materials helpful to them, while lay persons should find it an excellent place to begin. It should assist the librarian who needs to augment a particular subject area of the collection, or to open a new area. Law school course descriptions and scope notes are included, succinctly describing particular areas covered so researchers can determine if they are looking into the correct areas of the law.

Searching the Law/With Supplement 1

Edward J. Bander

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International Environmental Law: Evolving Legal Responses and Global Challenges

Alexandre S. Timoshenko

Reference

Statute of the International Criminal Court and Related Instruments: Legislative History 1994-2000

M. Cherif Bassiouni

Although universal online access to legal information has vastly expanded the lawyer's practical resources, it does not come with a clear and reliable methodology. A fundamental shift in approach is necessary to understand its enormous transformation of the legal research process; using it requires a new set of procedures amounting to the assimilation of a new legal culture. Now for the first time this new "cyberlegal" culture is fully set forth in a way that makes its great benefits available to all legal practitioners and law librarians. This volume provides an in-depth analysis of the new legal infrastructure inherent in the internationalization of legal research via the internet. It presents dependable strategies for navigating efficiently in the virtual reality environment, with special attention to the librarian's role in shaping legal database interfaces. It thoroughly explains how the law library's mission is restructured, adding a teaching dimension to its traditional role as a reference service. The author describes the skills and managerial decisions that characterize the cyberlegal culture, showing the reader exactly how the cyberlegal information specialist conducts substantive legal research. She spells out the guiding principles on evaluating databases, other online legal research tools, and the "linked thinking" capabilities of the internet. Concrete examples are provided throughout, such as: modules for teaching online legal research, with sensitivity to different regions, jurisdictions, and levels of comprehension; a catalog of reliable international and foreign legal databases, listed (with search strategies) by subject as well as by jurisdiction; and URLs for all databases discussed. An online version will be available to readers.

Toward a Cyberlegal Culture

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