Reference

Contains links to legal and general reference materials such as dictionaries, legal abbreviation guides and encyclopaedias.

Legal Dictionaries and Glossaries Legal Abbreviations General Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
  • Law.com Legal Dictionary
  • An online legal dictionary searchable by legal term, definition or alphabetical order. Contains basic legal terms.

  • HMCS Legal Glossary

    Her Majesty's British Court Services comprehensive Legal terminology glossary containing both latin and legal terms.

  • Duhaime's Legal Dictionary

    Duhaime's Law Dictionary is designed to offer one-stop shopping to all of us who occasionally need to know what a certain legal word means, because our rights stand to be affected by a reference to it, or because of employment or acedemic research requirements.

     
Legal Citation Guides and handbooks  
  • Guide to Foreign and International Legal Citation

    This guide, available to download as a large pdf file from the web site of New York University's School of Law, is produced by NYU's Journal of International Law and Politics. For each country covered there is a brief introduction to its legal system, followed by guidance on citation of its legal and official publications.

  • Pacific Law Pathfinder

    A comprehensive collection of online documents and hard copy references detailing most aspects of Pacific Law. Maintained by the USP Emalus Campus law library.

  • Globalex

    The Hauser Global Law School Program (HGLSP) at the New York University School of Law has produced a Global Research Tools section on their web site which includes a collection of guides. The guides are written by subject librarians and faculty from universities and other institutions from around the globe.

 

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