Research Guides: Legal Research: Find books

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Recent Titles on Legal Research

Idea and Methods of Legal Research
Call Number: Available Online

Oxford Scholarship Online ebook, 2019
Legal Research in a Nutshell
Ebsco eBook, 2021
Paralegal Career by Hatch, Scott A. & Lisa Zimmer Hatch
Call Number: Available Online

O'Reilly ebook, 2019

Selected reference books in the library's collection

Below is just a sampling of legal books in our reference collection:

The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation
Call Number: KF245 .B58 2020

DTC Reference Collection & PRC Reference Desk
Black's Law Dictionary
Call Number: KF156 .B53 2019

DTC Reference Collection
Burton's Legal Thesaurus
Call Number: KF156 .B856 2013

PRC Reference Desk & PRC Reference Collection
ALWD Citation Manual
Call Number: KF245 .A45 2010

PRC Reference Desk

Try some of these subject terms when searching for books

When using Quick Search or the library's eBook databases to find books, try some of these subject terms:

affirmative action
bankruptcy
civil procedure
commercial law
constitutional law
criminal law
divorce
domestic relations
emigration and immigration
environmental law
firearms
income tax
internet law

judicial error
juvenile justice
labor laws
legal assistants
legal composition
legal ethics
legal research
malpractice
privacy, rights of
products liability
real estate
torts
wills

Also use subject terms such as: law, legal, united states

Browse the shelves for print books

You can browse the following call number ranges in our library to find print books on law and legal issues to check out:

K1-7720 - Law, General

KF1-9827 - Law, United States

KFV2401-2999 - Law, Virginia

eBook databases to try

Ebook Central [ProQuest]
Ebook Central provides access to a wide variety of multi-disciplinary ebooks with unlimited, multi-user access, powerful research tools, and DRM-free chapter downloads (Full text)
Taylor & Francis eBooks
eBook collection covers a wide variety of disciplines including science, technology, engineering, medical, humanities and social science.

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