Resource Descriptions

American Law Reports includes five series on specific areas of legal practice and one Federal Series of Annotated Reports which provide an encyclopedic report with annotations (case law). Incorporates West's Keycite system for cross referencing. (A Level, No. 22)
American Jurisprudence 2d Legal encyclopedia covering specific topics with scope notes and citations written by specialists . Incorporates West's Keycite system for cross referencing. Similar to CJS. (B Level, No.9)
BNA Tax Management Loose-leaf Service covering tax planning in the areas of U.S. Income; Estates, Gifts and Trusts; and Foreign Income. (A Level, No. 16)
CCH Labor Law Reports Loose-leaf service provides updates on cases and changes in the area of labor law. (A Level, No. 20)
CFR Code of Federal Regulations is the official publication of federal regulations organized by agency. (A Level, No. 22)
Card Catalog Online card catalog. (B Level, No.14)
Congressional Information Services Index Comprehensive index of federal legislative history. Volumes up to 1995. Current index is available through Lexis. (B Level, No.5)
Congressional Record Official record of the daily proceedings of the United States House and Senate. Issued each day that either body meets. (A Level, No. 22)
Corpus Juris Secundum The general rule of law summarized in "Black Letter" headings and expanded upon in the text. Incorporates West's Keycite system for cross referencing. (B Level, No.9)
Current Law Index Multi-volume index covering articles in Legal Periodicals. Searchable by author, title and subject. Published annually with periodic updates during the year. Database is searchable online through Infotrac at the law school library only. (B Level, No. 8)
Estates Section includes treatises and loose-leaf services on tax aspects of income, gifts and estates. (A Level, No. 14)
Employment Reporters and Digests Section includes BNA Fair Employment Cases, Labor Relations Reference Manual. (A Level, No. 17)
Federal Digests Federal Practice Digest series is a comprehensive digest of federal cases organized by subject area, indexed by popular words and by case name. (A Level, No. 5)
Federal Register The Federal Register is the official daily publication for Rules, Proposed Rules, and Notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as Executive Orders and other Presidential Documents. (A Level, No. 22)
Federal Reporters US Reports, Supreme Court Reporter and Lawyers Edition series include US Supreme Court cases. Federal Reporter series reports Federal Appellate Cases. Federal Supplement series reports Federal District Court cases. Also in this section Bankruptcy Reporter, Military Justice Reporter, US Tax Court Reports and other official administrative law reporters. (A Level, No. 8)
Federal Rules Service (A Level, No.4)
Government Documents The collection includes approximately nine per cent of the US governments publications. A substantial portion of all government documents are available through their internet sites. (A Level, No. 9)
House and Senate Journals (Tennessee) Official journal of the proceeding of the state legislatures. Includes all official acts, but is not a transcript and provides limited legislative history. (B Level, No.1)
Index to Legal Periodicals (B Level, No.8)
Infotrac Online database to legal periodicals. Available only at the library computer terminals. Provides cites to articles in response to search queries. (B Level, No.12)
Internal Revenue Code and Regulations West publication includes complete tax code and regulations with annotations (case law) (A Level, No. 15)
IRS Manual (Level A, No. 14)
Legal Trac Online database of legal periodicals (B Level, No. 12)
Loose-leaf Services Updated guides to areas of practice shelved in alcove for easy access. Includes BNA and CCH reporters. (B Level, No.7)
NLRB Decisions and Orders Rulings by the National Lobor Relations Board. (A Level, No. 18)
Periodical Titles Legal journals published in the US. Titles A-Liberty are to the left of the Front Desk and Liberty-Z are to the right. International journals are located on E level. (B Level, Nos. 3 and 4)
Reference: dictionaries, non-legal encyclopedias General reference includes, full Oxford English Dictionary, Encyclopedia Britannica and statistical references (B Level, No.2)
Regional Reporters and Digests Standard reporter series for state appellate cases. Reporters Include Atlantic, North Eastern, North Western, Pacific, Southern, South Eastern and South Western. (A Level, No. 10)
Restatements Published by the American Law Institute, establishes general rules of law with annotations (case law). Restatements of Agency, Contracts, Partnership, Property, Restitution, The Law Governing Lawyer and Torts are at the Reserve desk. (B Level, No. 8)
Shepard's Tennessee Citations Sheaprd's Citator for cases referencing prior Tennessee cases. Useful for finding recent law on similar legal questions and establishing current validity holdings in earlier cases. See Reserve Desk for most current pamphlets. (B Level, No.10)
State Materials Includes All 50 state codes and codes from major US territories. Also includes state digests. Alabama-Connecticut located at No. 11. Delaware-Illinois located at No. 12. Indiana-Wyoming located at No. 13. (A Level, Nos. 11, 12, 13)
State Taxes CCH loose-leaf service covering state tax law. (A Level, No. 14)
Statutes at Large (A Level, No. 7)
Supreme Court Digest US Supreme Court case organized by subject. (A Level, No. 4)
Tax Reports and Services Includes reporters covering federal tax matter at administrative, administrative law and Federal Court levels. (A Level, No. 19)
Tennessee Citations Sheaprd's Citator to cases referencing prior Tennessee cases. Useful for finding recent law on similar legal questions and establishing current validity holdings in earlier cases. See Reserve Desk for most current pamphlets. (B Level, No.10)
Tenn. Code Ann. Tennessee Code Annotated is the official version of the statutes of Tennessee with annotations (case law and articles) following each section. There are four copies of the code. (B Level, Nos. 1 and 10 and on Reserve also A Level, No. 13)
Tennessee Digest  Comprehensive list of Tennessee cases with synopses organized by subject according to West's Key Number Digest System. (B Level, Nos. 1 and 10, also A Level, No. 13)
Tennessee Jurisprudence Summary of the law of Tennessee by subject area with footnotes to relevant cases. Not as exhaustive in listing cases as the Tennessee Digest. (B Level, Nos. 1 and 10)
Tenn. Reports Tennessee Appellate cases. Current reporters follow the South West Reporter also published by West. (B Level, Nos. 1)
U.S.C., U.S.C.A., U.S.C.S. United States Code is the official codification of US statutes. United States Code Annotated is West's code with annotations (case law) and is the most commonly used set for code research. United States Code Service is the Lawyer's Cooperative code with annotations. (A Level, Nos. 1, 2, and 6)
US Code Congressional and Administrative News Monthly updates of US laws, legislative history, proclamations and Presidential orders. Bound volumes are a good source for researching legislative history. (A Level, No. 3)
Uniform Laws Annotated (B Level, No.8)
Words and Phrases West law finder uses the Key Number Digest System and is organized by commonly used words. (B Level, Nos. 9)