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

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.

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

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.

This source provides a subject arrangement of current regulations promulgated by federal agencies. Codified text. It is organized by title. The title that pertains to Criminal Law:

• Title 28: Judicial Administration

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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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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.

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

This source contains judicial decisions of the lower federal courts.

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.

This resource is valuable  to ascertain  if a case was used or cited in other cases. However Loislaw has a feature called GlobalCite which operates much the same as Shepard's.

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 deal with 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.

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

Published by Congressional Quarterly, the staff does research a topic of current 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.

Contains an overview to defamation law, and privacy law as it relates to defamation. There is an overview of the history of defamation, and the public figure/private figure dichotomy, truth as a defense against a libel or slander suit, what kinds of statements are considered defamatory, defamation in cartoons and song lyrics, group defamation, racial, ethnic, religious disparagement, libel as a means of combating hate speech, first amendment doctrines that protect hate speech, circumstances in which hate speech may arguably be punished, and damages. This publication is updated every year.

Contains discussion of Supreme Court Cases having impact on Education in the United States.

Provides a topic approach to educational law in Oklahoma, using Oklahoma Statutes, court cases, federal laws and regulations. It is updated monthly.

Encyclopedic compilation of state and Federal appellate court decisions which affect education. Organized by topics, such as: school athletics, accidents, freedom of religion, freedom of speech and association and student rights. This publication is updated every year. There is a case index, a topic index, an index to recent law review articles on education law topics, and a glossary of legal terms.

This is a reference guide intended for school administrators who need to know the law regarding special education services. It contains chapters on the Individuals with Disabilities Act, Placement, Private School Tuition, School Liability, Discrimination, and more. It contains discussion of important federal and state cases in special education topics. It also has a glossary, and index to recent law review articles on special education topics.

C35f Contains chapters that discuss various aspects of sports law, such as: negligence, school liability, coach liability, referee liability, medical liability, spectator injuries, defamation and invasion of privacy, "no pass, no play" rules, sex discrimination, drug testing, and more. The original book was written in 1990, and there is a supplement in the back which updates it to December 1995. See also (R 344.73099 L41) Law of Professional and Amateur Sports

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.

This four volume set attempts to "draw together in one set of volumes all that is known about criminal behavior and the responses of societies to it." It is interdisciplinary since it "covers all fields of knowledge that have a bearing on understanding the nature and causes of criminal behavior of various kinds, the prevention of crime, the punishment and treatment of offenders, the functioning of the institutions of criminal justice, and the bodies of law that define criminal behavior and govern the processes through which criminal law is applied."( forward Vol 1). The articles included cover a broad range of criminal topics, such as: Alcohol and crime, Amnesty, burden of proof, capital punishment,comparative criminal law between various countries and societies, confessions, crime causation, drinking and driving, double jeopardy, euthanasia, forgery, gambling, guilt, guilty plea, interpol, jails, jury, juvenile justice, military justice, obscenity and pornography, organized crime, perjury, police, legal rights of prisoners, prisons, probation and parole, rape, riots, robbery, sedition, search & seizure, speedy trial, violence, violence in the family, and youth gangs.

This four volume set contains articles on crimes and criminal behaviors, law and justice, policing, forensics, corrections, victimology, punishment, sociocultural context and popular culture, concepts and theories of crime and punishment, international crime and punishment, and much more.

This three volume set is "designed to cover the most important aspects of criminal justice in the United States." It contains 625 articles that focus around the concepts of criminals, codes, Constitutions, cops, courts and corrections. There are articles on who criminals are, what types of crimes they commit, the framework of American law, and major pieces of legislation, modes of punishment, the structure of the court system and more.

This new set is designed to present "contributions that reflect the field's multidiscipinary composition and its theoretical and methodological plurality." The major areas covered include: the history of criminology, the history of legal and criminal justice traditions, criminal law, types of criminal behavior, correlates of criminal behavior victimization, measures of crime, theories or criminal behavior, the justices system, cross-cultural and global crime and justice, professional issues, and prominent figures in Criminology and Criminal Justice.

Provides definitions of the words and terms used in the law

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.

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

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.

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.