COMM 328: Communication Law
Fall 2009
Suzanne Condray
Librarian: Mary Prophet - prophet@denison.edu, ex. 6512Librarian: Roger Kosson - kossonr@denison.edu, ex. 6389
Finding Articles
Use these indexes to locate recent newspaper articles, scholarly articles in law journals and articles in the popular press.
- Academic Search Complete
- Communication & Mass Media Complete
- ComAbstracts
- Legal Collection
- Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
- NewsBank Newspapers
- CQ Researcher
- CQ Weekly
Finding Legislative Actions
These tools will help you locate copies of the Statute (Law) and the hearings and reports produced during consideration of the bill before it's passage. Hearings and reports are important in determining Congressional intent.
- Congressional Universe
- C.I.S. (Congressional Research Service) Annual (Reference Room Row 30)
- Public and Private Laws - on GPO ACCESS
- U.S. Statutes at Large (See rows 30 & 31 in the reference room
- Thomas Legislative information from the Library of Congress
- United States Code via GPO ACCESS
- United States Code US House of Representatives
Finding Cases
Court Rulings and interpretations
Federal Cases
- Academic Universe Click on Legal Research
- Federal Courts Finder
- US Courts - Court Link
- U.S. Supreme Court Decisions 1937-1975
- U.S. Supreme Court - Current Opinions 2002-2005
- Legal Information Institute Includes Supreme Court Decisions 1990 to present
- OHIO Reporter of Decisions - Opinions & Announcements
State Cases
- Academic Universe Click on Legal Research
- State Court Websites (National Center for State Courts
Text Book Site
- Freedom of Speech in the United States
This Web site created by the authors of a text book on free speech contains links to a number of resources on Free Speech including: court decisions for the cases studied by book chapter and name, links to historic documents related to free speech, and other free speech related resources.
Law Reviews
Online access is available to more that 300 law reviews. A few examples are listed here.
- Antitrust law & economics review 1969- Periodical Stacks HB1 .A67
- Columbia law review 1992- Periodical Stacks K3.O355 Online 1901-2001
- Harvard law review 1955/56- Periodical Stacks K 8 .A75 Online 1887-2001
- Law & society review 1989- Periodical Stacks K12 .A96 Online 2003-2005
- Minnesota law review 1991- Periodical Stacks K13.I55 Full text online 1982- through Lexis-Nexis.
- Stanford law review 1992/93- Periodical Stacks K23 .T3 Online 1948-1999 and Full text available from LexisNexis Academic: 11/01/1982 to present
- The University of Chicago law review 1997- Periodical Stacks K25 .N568 Full text available from LexisNexis Academic: Summer 1982 to present
- William & Mary law review 1992- Periodical Stacks K27 .I45 Full text available from LexisNexis Academic: Fall 1982 to present
Legal Dictionaries
- Black's Law Dictionary, REF KF156.B53 1999
- Media Law Dictionary, REF KF 2750.A68 M87
- Real Life Dictionary of the Law, REF KF156.H55 1995
- FindLaw Legal Dictionary
Online version of Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law.