AVIATION LAW RESOURCES

LEGISLATIVE LAWS

R 348.76602 OK4w Oklahoma Statutes 

This source contains all laws of a general and permanent nature including laws and amendments passed by the first regular and first extraordinary sessions of the 48th legislature, with supplement volumes taking it to the 50th legislature in 2006..   The statutes are arranged by title and indexed by subject.   The most current year is available in the reference section. Past years and their supplements can be located in the circulating collection. Also available on the Internet at: http://www.lsb.state.ok.us/osStatuesTitle.html , or through LoisLaw

R 348.76602 OK4w Oklahoma Statutes Annotated 

This source contains all laws of a general and permanent nature including laws and amendments passed by the first regular and first extraordinary sessions of the legislature up to 1993 and a pocket part that updates the Statutes until 2001. The statutes are arranged by title and indexed by subject. The difference between this and the regular Oklahoma Statutes is the annotations.

R 348.7323 Un3c United States Code 

Codified text of the U.S. laws. This is the official edition of the code containing all the general and permanent laws of the United States. The last complete edition is the 2000 edition.   It is arranged by title (subject) and section number and is supplemented annually. The title that is most concerned with Education is Title 20. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act is found in Title 20, paragraphs 1400-1491.  You can also search the U. S. Code on the Internet at http://uscode.house.gov/, or at: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/uscode/index.html, or through LoisLaw

AE 2.111  United States Statutes at Large

The official text of all public laws passed by the Congress of the United States.  This reference gives the law as it was originally passed by Congress. The public laws in this set are organized by the number of the Congress that passed them.  Public laws are also available on the Internet for the 101st through the 109th Congress at http://thomas.loc.gov/  You can find the United States Statutes at Large online at: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/statutes/index.html. The individuals With Disabilities Education Act is found under Public Law 102-119.  The 1997 Amendments to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act are found at Public Law 105-17.

ADMINISTRATIVE LAW--FEDERAL REGULATIONS

AE 2.106/3 Code of Federal Regulations 

This source provides a subject arrangement of current regulations promulgated by federal agencies. Codified text. It is organized by title. Some of the titles that are of interest to Education:

  • Title 14: Aeronautics and Space
  • Title 32: Defense
  • Title 49: Transportation
You can also search the Code of Federal Regulations on the Internet at

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/cfr/index.html.

AE 2.106.55 Federal Register

Published every business day. Contains updates on legislation, rules and regulations, Presidential documents, proposed rules, notices of hearings, announcements new federal grants, and much more. You can access the Federal Register on the Internet at:

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/index.html

COURT CASES

R 348.73 Un3ca United States Reports

This is the official bound edition of the United States Supreme Court decisions. Before they are bound the official Supreme Court decisions are printed individually and are called slip opinions. The most recent years of slip opinions  that have not been bound are located in the Government Documents collection on Floor 2A. The supreme court decisions are also available online through FindLaw at: http://www.findlaw.com, or through LoisLaw

R 348.73413 Su7 Supreme Court Reporter 

Published by West Publishing Company. Contains cases decided in United States Supreme Court. The library has from 1912 to 1978.

R 348.73413 Un3u United States Supreme Court Digest

This contains an outline of the law by topic that has been developed by West Publishing Company, the publisher of federal and court cases. This outline of the law is called the West Key Number System. It gives citations to judicial cases in the U.S. Supreme Court Reports, Supreme Court Reporter and Corpus Juris Secundum.  Ii also gives citation to any legislation pertaining to subject. 

  • Volumes 1A-1D: Descriptive Word Index
  • Volumes 2-13A West's Outline of the Law
  • Volumes 14-14A Table of Cases
  • Volumes 15-15A Defendant-Plaintiff table
  • Volumes 16-16A Court Rules: U.S. Supreme Court, Federal Courts of Appeals, Court of Claims and other courts.

COURT CASES-STATE CASES


 
(Bryan County Law Library) Pacific Reporter 

This source contains judicial cases from the states of Alaska, Arizona, California, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, Oklahoma.

(Bryan County Law Library) Corpus Juris Secundum 

This source is a complete restatement of the entire American law as developed by all reported cases by William Mack and Donald J. Kiser. It is indexed by the West Key system and gives references to numerous sources.

(Bryan County Law Library)  Federal Reporter 

This source contains cases that have been tried in the U.S. court of appeals and the U.S. District Courts. 

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R 348.766 Ok4d

Oklahoma Digest 

This source contains judicial opinions reported in chronological order for Oklahoma that are also reported  in the Pacific Reporter.  . It is indexed by the West Key number system.

R 348.766 Ok4d Oklahoma Decisions

This source contains judicial opinions reported in The Pacific Reporter for Oklahoma. It is indexed by the West Key number system.

(Bryan County Law Library)  West Federal Digest 

This source contains judicial decisions of the lower federal courts.

(Basement) West's Education Law Reporter 

Published since 1982, this biweekly reporter contains the full text of decisions reached in the U.S. Supreme Court , U.S. Courts of Appeals, U.S. District Courts and State Appellate Courts that pertain to education. The cases are from 2 to 4 months before the issue date. Also included in the Reporter are synopses of cases which have been recently reviewed by West Publishing Co. The cases and articles from the Reporter are indexed in ERIC until 1992 and are also indexed in Education Index.

R 348.7327 Sh4s7 Shepard's United States Citations 

This resource is valuable  to ascertain  if a case was used or cited in other cases.


LOISLAW

Loislaw offers a wide range of legal content and supporting materials, including: up-to-date cases, statutes, rules and regulations, and other primary law for all 50 states and federal jurisdictions; expert-authored online treatise libraries, focused around practice areas, including Wigmore on evidence, Ginsberg and Martin on bankruptcy, and Price on estate planning; and extensive public records for individuals and corporations.

LoisLaw is accessed by going to the Electronic Resources page at: http://www.se.edu/lib/electres.htm, and then going down to the LoisLaw link under legal resources on that page. Once there, you will be asked for a user id and password to access the site. See the information desk in the library for the user id and password.

OTHER SOURCES ON AVIATION LAW

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R 348.776025oK4O Oklahoma Administrative Code.

A topic arrangement of all of Oklahoma's rules established by state agencies and by executive orders. This code is also available online at: http://www.sos.state.ok.us/oar/oar_welcome.htm

R 070.442 Ed4c CQ Researcher

This resource contains reports of national interest, such as AIDS, gun control, abortion, lotteries, Acid rain, toxic waste, hate crimes, sexual harassment etc. Great place to start doing research on a topic. Each weekly report contains an extensive bibliography at the end of the report.

R 348.7303 G94 West's Encyclopedia of American Law 

Designed to meet the layperson's needs for basic legal information. Contains articles on legal principles and concepts, biographies of important people in legal matters, accounts of famous trials, important documents and laws. Supplements are published annually.

R 340.03 B56b6 Black's Law Dictionary

Provides definitions of the words and terms used in the law

R 342.73 En5l Encyclopedia of the American Constitution

Contains articles on doctrinal concepts of constitutional law, (such as federalism, freedom of speech, age discrimination, the establishment clause), people associated with the development and interpretation of the constitution, articles on all amendments to the constitution, famous court cases, public laws (statutes, treaties, and executive orders) (such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990), plus articles on constitutional history. Each article has a bibliography of other sources that can be used for further information. Also has appendices which have the complete text of the constitution and a glossary of legal terms.

Exploring the Constitution Series

This series contains three volumes that deal with various constitutional issues:

Search, Seizure and Privacy
342.730852 M25S Separation of Church and State
342.73085 M25E Equal Protection
342.730853 M25F Freedom of Speech, Press, and Assembly
R 342.73 Un4c Constitution of the United States of America

This publication is prepared every ten years by the Library of Congress. It contains analysis and interpretation of all sections of, and amendments to the United States Constitution. The hardbound edition is published every ten years, with supplements published every two years. The current edition was published in 1996, and contains annotations of cases decided by the U.S. Supreme Court to June 29, 1992. A special section of this volume is a listing of Acts passed by the United States Congress that were held to be unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court, and state constitutional and statutory provisions and municipal ordinances held unconstitutional.

R 342.73 C36c2 Constitutional Law Deskbook

This volume is concerned with individual rights in the U.S. Constitution. It has chapters on the First, fourth, fifth, sixth, and eighth Amendments, and a chapter on equal protection and privacy. The last chapter contains definitions of legal terms.

USING JOURNALS AND MAGAZINES AND NEWSPAPERS

WHAT ARE MAGAZINES, JOURNALS, NEWSPAPERS?

A magazine or journal is something that is published periodically, and so in libraries they are called periodicals. A magazine is a periodical that can be published daily, weekly, or monthly. Magazines usually contain fairly short articles written in a style of writing that is easy to understand. There are usually lots or advertising in a magazine. A journal, however, contains the results of research or experiments done. Usually in a journal article there is data presented about a research project, and the language can be quite technical, and there are few advertisements.

Unlike books, the contents of journals are not available in the SE library catalog. So where are they located? They are located in magazine and journal indexes. Magazine and journal indexes assign a subject to each article in each journal indexed in the magazine and journal index. Until the 1990's most magazine and journal indexes were in paper, now they are almost all on the Internet. Some of these journal indexes on the Internet index popular magazines, other scholarly, while others are devoted to one subject area, NO Journal Index indexes every journal that is published, so they are selective.

For more information on periodicals and periodical databases that the Library has, see the document called Using Magazines, Journals and Newspapers at: http://www.se.edu/lib/magazines.htm

Some Periodical Indexes/Databases

EBSCOHost Academic Search Premier

The SE Library has subscribed to a new database called Academic Search Premier. This database has been designed specifically for academic institutions and EBSCOHost claims that, it is “the world’s largest scholarly, multidisciplinary full text database.” Indeed, it is larger that the database that it is replacing, Academic Search Elite. It contains full text for nearly 4,550 journals and magazines, whereas Elite has only 2050. It has indexing and abstracting for more than 8,200 titles. It contains full text for many journals back to the 1990’s and for one hundred journals there is full text back to 1975.

1st floor, microform areaNew York Times Index
This is the index to the New York Times, a major national newspaper. It is located in the microform area of the First floor of the Library in red volumes. Each annual volume contains a subject index to the contents of that year's New York Times articles. The actual New York Times articles are found on microfilm, from 1851- to the present. The paper New York Times index goes back to 1929, and before that, the index is available on microfiche. A much more useful version of the New York Times Index is found online at: http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nytimes/advancedsearch.html
Online in EBSCOHostMilitary and Government Collection
"Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles."
ABI-Inform ABI-Inform

This is a large business database, and indexes over 3000 journals, magazines and newspapers.

MAGAZINES & JOURNALS RELATED TO AVIATION LAW IN THE SE LIBRARY

basement AOPA Pilot

This is the official magazine of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, and contains articles of interest to aircraft owners

basement Aviation Safety

This is published monthly by Belvoir Aviation Group, and contains articles on risk management and accident prevention in aviation.

basement Aviation Week & Space Technology

This magazine is published weekly by McGraw-Hill, and contains news articles about the aviation and space industries worldwide. The Library contains the last few years in paper copy in the basement and before that it is on microfilm and microfiche back to 1980

basement Human Factors and Aerospace Safety

This quarterly journal is published by Asgate Publishing in the United Kingdom, and contains scholarly articles on "the human element in the aerospace system, and its role in either avoiding or contributing to accidents and incidents, and in promoting safe operations."

basement Human Factors & Aviation Medicine

This is a bi-monthly newsletter published by the Flight Safety Foundation, and contains short news articles on aviation medicine.

basement Journal of Air Law and Commerce

This is a publication of the Southern Methodist University School of Law, and contains scholarly articles on all aspects of aviation law.

basement NTSB Reporter

This publication reports on the investigations of the National Transportation Safety Board.

INTERNET RESOURCES

Introduction to Internet Resources

There are millions of Internet sites now. Each site has an address on the Internet. That address is called a URL (Uniform Resource Locator). After each Internet history site mentioned in this list, there will be the URL, location, or address of the site on the Internet. When you want to access a site on this list, type in the address which appears after the letters URL. You must type in the address exactly as it appears. If you do not, you will not access the site. DO NOT TYPE IN URL.





Federal Aviation Administration
http://www.faa.gov
The main aviation web site on the Internet. "The Federal Aviation Administration is responsible for insuring the safe, efficient, and secure use of the Nation's airspace, by military as well as civil aviation, for promoting safety in air commerce, for encouraging and developing civil aeronautics, including new aviation technology, and for supporting the requirements of national defense." At this site you can learn about aircraft registration, certification, regulations, and technical information, airport status and air traffic information, airport information, technological improvements of airports, aircraft accident and Incident reports, commercial space data, passengers and cargo statistics, safety statistics, education and research information, licenses and certificates for airmen, aircraft, medical, airlines and airports, aviation regulations and policies and aviation safety.


Aviation Safety Network
http://aviation-safety.net/index.php
This site is a production of the Flight Safety Foundation. "The ASN Safety Database, updated every week, contains descriptions of over 12,200 airliner, military transport category aircraft and corporate jet aircraft safety occurrences since 1943."


National Transportation Safety Board
http://www.ntsb.gov/
"The National Transportation Safety Board is one of the world's foremost accident investigation agencies. Our job is to find out what causes transportation accidents, and to recommend safety improvements to prevent them from reoccurring. Established in 1967, the Board is a small, independent Federal agency headed by five Board Members who are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate. The Board investigates transportation accidents in all modes -- aviation, marine, highway, rail, and pipeline. About 2,000 aviation accidents are investigated every year, ranging from small private aircraft to jumbo jets, and even space transportation. The NTSB also assists in major airline crash investigations overseas involving U.S. manufactured aircraft and components, or U.S. registered aircraft. While the majority of the Board's investigations are in aviation, we also investigate hundreds of surface accidents each year focusing on accidents involving dangers to the traveling public and recurring safety problems. And we also investigate major pipeline accidents and accidents involving the release of hazardous materials."


Aviation Safety Reporting System
http://asrs.arc.nasa.gov/
"The Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS) was established in 1975 under a Memorandum of Agreement between the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). FAA provides most of the program funding; NASA administers the program and sets its policies in consultation with the FAA and the aviation community. One of the main features of the of the ASRS is the ASRS database. "The ASRS database is the world's largest repository of voluntary, confidential safety information provided by aviation's frontline personnel, including pilots, controllers, mechanics, flight attendants, and dispatchers. The database provides a foundation for specific products and subsequent research addressing a variety of aviation safety issues. ASRS's database includes the narratives submitted by reporters (after they have been sanitized for identifying details). These narratives provide an exceptionally rich source of information for policy development, human factors research, education, training, and more. The database also contains coded information by expert analysts from the original report which is used for data retrieval and analyses."


Aviation Safety Network
http://aviation-safety.net/index.php
This site is a production of the Flight Safety Foundation. "The ASN Safety Database, updated every week, contains descriptions of over 12,200 airliner, military transport category aircraft and corporate jet aircraft safety occurrences since 1943."


NOAA's National Weather Service
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/
The main agency that has the responsibility for the weather. There are NWS stations all over the country.


Aviation Resources
http://www.se.edu/lib/subavi.htm
This site, on the SE Library's homepage, contains many useful links to Aviation related resources.


Aviation: WEX: Legal Information Institute
http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/index.php/Aviation

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Last Updated: June 23, 2008