Research Guides: Locating Articles about the Law: Library Books

Finding Books on Law

Beeghly Library Catalog (OPAL)
Searches books at Heidelberg and other private Ohio academic libraries. Books from other libraries can be shipped to Beeghly.
OhioLINK Catalog
Searches books at Ohio academic libraries. Books from other libraries can be shipped to Beeghly.

Book on law are usually in the K section of the library, located downstairs.

Use these books to get a general overview of laws, legal concepts, and legal history.

A Dictionary of Law (8th ed.) by Jonathan Law (Editor)
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: 2015
Gale Encyclopedia of American Law 3rd ed.
Publication Date: 2011
Overview of all aspects of law in the United States
The Oxford Companion to American Law by Kermit L. Hall; Joel B. Grossman; James W. Ely; N. E. H. Hull; David S. Clark
Publication Date: 2004
Overview of law in the United States at the federal, state, and local levels, and its relationship with the justice system and American society at large
National Survey of State Laws by Richard A. Leiter (Editor)
Publication Date: 2008
Overview on state laws in all areas, including criminal, business, consumer, family, employment, and civil law
Parry and Grant Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law by John P. Grant; J. Craig Barker; Clive Parry
Publication Date: 2009
Guide to terminology and descriptive information on international law, including diplomatic law, criminal law, and human rights.
The Complete Bill of Rights: The Drafts, Debates, Sources, and Origins by Neil H. Cogan
Call Number: Reference KF4744 2015
Publication Date: 2015
Traces the development of each clause of each amendment in the Bill of Rights from conception to adoption.