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Chapter 8—Secondary Authority
Legal Periodicals
Legal Periodicals
Purpose and research role
Legal Periodicals• Types
– Law reviews– Bar association and other
association publications– Commercial publications– Legal newspapers and news-
letters
Legal Periodicals• Research aids
– Index to Legal Periodicals (I.L.P.).• Subject/author index, table of cases, table of statutes,
book review index– Current Law Index (C.L.I.).
• Subject index, author/title index, table of cases, table of statutes
– Legal Resource Index (L.R.I.)
– Other periodical indexes
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Legislative History
Legislative History
• Purpose and research role• Sources—Congressional
bills, committee hearings committee reports, congressional debates
Legislative History
• Research sources– Compiled legislative histories– Congressional Information Service (CIS)– United States Code Congressional and
Administrative News Service (USCCAN)– Congressional Record– Congressional Index– Congressional and other sources– Computer-aided research
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Restatements of the Law
Restatements of the Law
• Purpose and research role
• Areas of the law covered
Restatements of the Law
• Features– Organization
– Restatement of the law
– Comments and reporter’s notes
– Cross references and appendix volumes
– Updates and index
Restatements of the Law
• Research aids– Index
– Table of contents– Appendix volumes
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Uniform Laws and Model Acts
Uniform Laws and Model Acts
Purpose and research role
Uniform Laws and Model Acts
• Features– Organization– Uniform law– Commissioners’ notes– Library references– Notes to decisions– Tables, updates, and index
Restatements of the Law
• Research aids–Uniform Laws Annotated, Master
Edition—includes a Directory of Uniform Acts and Codes: Tables and Codes
–Reference from other sources