Secondary & Practice Guides   Tags: secondary_sources, treatise  

Be sure to read the Database Access Guide carefully before beginning your research.

1. General Encyclopedias and Guides
2. Topical Annotations, Selected Topics
3. Rutter Group Practice Guides
4. Accounting for Lawyers & Law Practice Management
5. A.D.A. (Americans with Disabilities Act) Practice
6. Administrative Law
7. Admiralty/Maritime Law
8. Antitrust/Trade Regulation
9. Appeals/Appellate Procedure (See also: Trial Technique/Advocacy)
10. Arbitration/Mediation
11. Attorney Fees
12. Automobiles (See also: Insurance)
13. Aviation
14. Banking
15. Bankruptcy
16. Bar Exam
17. Business (See also: Contracts, Commercial/UCC)
18. Civil Procedure (See: Court Practice)
19. Civil Rights/Discrimination (See also: A.D.A. Practice, Employment Law)
20. Class Actions
21. Collective Bargaining/Public Sector (See: Labor Law)
22. Commercial/UCC
23. Community Property (See: Family Law)
24. Constitutional Law
25. Construction
26. Consumer Protection & Advertising Law (See also: Debt Collection, Bankruptcy)
27. Contracts
28. Copyright (See: Intellectual Property)
29. Corporations/Partnerships/LLCs (See also: Nonprofits)
30. Court Practice (See also: Form Books, Discovery, Jury Instructions, Sentencing, and Trial Technique)
31. Criminal Law and Procedure
32. Damages (See also: Remedies and individual subject areas, e.g. Insurance, Torts, etc.)
33. Data Protection (See: Privacy, Internet Law)
34. Debt Collection (See also: Bankruptcy)
35. Discovery (See also: Court Practice)
36. Discrimination (See: Civil Rights, A.D.A. Practice, and Employment Law)
37. Education Law
38. Elder Law
39. Elections & Lobbying
40. Employment Law (For Collective Bargaining/Public Sector, see Labor Law)
41. Entertainment, Sports and Art Law
42. Environmental Law
43. Estate Planning/Wills/Trusts (See also: Probate)
44. Evidence
45. Family Law/Community Property
46. Form Books (See also: Court Practice, Discovery, Jury Instructions)
47. Government Liability
48. Health Law (See: Medical Malpractice)
49. Immigration
50. Insurance
51. Intellectual Property
52. Internet Law (See also: Privacy/Data Protection)
53. Jury Instructions
54. Juveniles
55. Labor Law/Collective Bargaining (See also: Employment Law)
56. Land Use (See also: Real Property)
57. Landlord-Tenant/Commercial Leases (See also: Real Property)
58. Legal Ethics/Professional Responsibility
59. Legal Writing (See also: Style Manuals)
60. Licensing
61. Local Government/Municipal Law
62. Maritime Law (See: Admiralty)
63. Medical Malpractice/Health Law/Health Care 
64. Medicare (See: Social Security)
65. Mortgages (See: Real Property)
66. National Security
67. Nonprofits
68. Paralegals
69. Partnerships (See: Corporation/Partnership)
70. Patents (See: Intellectual Property)
71. Pensions
72. Personal Injury (See: Torts)
73. Police Liability (See: Government Liability, Torts)
74. Prisons & Prisoners
75. Privacy/Data Protection (See also: Internet Law)
76. Probate (See also: Estate Planning)
77. Products Liability (See: Torts)
78. Professional Responsibility (See: Legal Ethics)
79. Real Property/Mortgages (See also: Landlord-Tenant/Commercial Leases, Land Use)
80. Remedies
81. Securities Regulation
82. Sentencing (See also: Criminal Law and Procedure)
83. Social Security/Medicare
84. Statutory Construction
85. Style Manuals
86. Taxation
87. Torts (See also: Government Liability, Medical Malpractice)
88. Trademarks/Unfair Competition
89. Trial Technique/Advocacy/Jury Selection (See also: Court Practice, Jury Instructions)
90. Trusts (See: Estate Planning)
91. UCC (See: Commercial)
92. Unfair Competition (See: Trademarks)
93. Wills (See: Estate Planning)
94. Workers' Compensation
95. Zoning (See: Land Use)

This guide includes the Library's most current, updated secondary and practice guides, most often in loose-leaf format. However, for those subject areas where the Library owns few print sources, the links to the subscription databases on Lexis and Westlaw are provided. Please see the Database Access Guide for more information. 

The guide is arranged by subject, then arranged alphabetically by title. Each subject area page includes a link to the Guide Outline (top right-hand corner), which will take you to the box on the Introduction tab (to the left of this box). The Guide Outline includes direct links to subject area pages, as well as cross-references to related subject areas. You can also use the 11 main tabs and multiple subtabs to navigate to the various subject areas. The main tab page includes the first subject area listed on that tab. Each page may be printed out by using the "print" feature located above the tabs.

The call number for each title is hyperlinked to the library catalog. View the catalog record to check the Library's holdings and the most recent update of that title. In some cases, the Library no longer updates the print copy, but provides online access through a UCLA or UCLAW database. The library catalog record includes a link to "Online Access."

All titles are located in the law library stacks unless otherwise indicated. Very few of these publications can be checked out. In general, if a title is a loose-leaf, it may not be checked out. "Reserve" indicates that the title must be requested at the Circulation Desk, may be checked out for two hours and may not be taken outside Library.

The boxes directly below this one list General Encyclopedias, such as AmJur, the Witkin publications, ALR, and the Rutter Group Practice Guides.

Finally, while the primary focus of this guide is on the Library's print titles, law students and others who would like to access legal treatises online may wish to take a look at the box Tips on Finding Treatises Online (below, right column).

American jurisprudence, 2d. (AmJur) (Thomson/West) 
KF 154 .A42 1962

American jurisprudence legal forms, 2d.  KF 170 .A542

American jurisprudence pleading and practice forms annotated. 
KF 8869.1 .A44

American jurisprudence trials.  KF 8917 .A53

American jurisprudence proof of facts, 3d.  KF 8933 .A43

Corpus juris secundum (CJS). (West)  KF 154 .C56

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California:

Action guides (Continuing Eduation of the Bar--California) ("How to . . . "). (CEB) KFC 995 .A1 C34 (Reserve)

Click here: CEB Action Guides for a list of print guides owned by the law library. Sort by date or by title (drop-down menu on top left).

California jurisprudence, 3d. (Cal Jur)  KFC 65 .C33

Witkin (published by the Witkin Legal Institute):

Summary of California law, 10th ed.  KFC 80 .W5 2005

California procedure, 5th ed.  KFC 995 .W52 2008

California evidence, 4th ed.  KFC 1030 .W5 2000

California criminal law, 3rd ed.  KFC 1100 .W52 2000

American law reports (ALR), 6th. (Thomson/West)  KF 132 .A56

American law reports (ALR), Federal 2d. (Thomson/West)
KF 105 .A542

Please note that most Rutter Guides are kept on Reserve. Ask for Reserve titles at the Circulation Desk. Titles marked with an asterisk are in the Stacks.

Alternative Dispute Resolution (Knight, Fannin, Disco)  KFC 1093 .K65 1992 (Reserve)

*Bankruptcy (March, Ahart, Tchaikovsky)  KFC 365 .A6 M37

*Bus. & Prof. C. [section] 17200 practice [California Unfair Business Practices Act] (Stern)  KFC 375 .S827

*California Criminal Procedure (Levenson)  KFC 1155 .L482

*California Law and Motions Authorities (Parker, Finley, Maze)  KFC 1012 .P37

*California Three Strikes Sentencing (J. Richard Couzens, Tricia A. Bigelow)  KFC 1172 .C68

Civil Appeals and Writs (Eisenberg, Horvitz, Weiner)  KFC 1075 .E47 1989 (Reserve)

Civil Procedure Before Trial (Weil & Brown)  KFC 995 .W4 (Reserve)

Civil Procedure Before Trial: forms (Rivera)  KFC 995 .A65 R58 (Reserve)

Civil Procedure Before Trial: statutes of limitations (Rylaarsdam & Turner)  KFC 1020 .R95 (Reserve)

Civil Trials and Evidence (Wegner et al.)  KFC 1025 .A6 W43 (Reserve)

Corporations (Friedman)  KFC 345 .A6 F75 (Reserve)

*Elder Abuse Litigation (Balisok)  KFC 111 .A34 B35

Employment Litigation (Chin)  KFC 572 .A6 C35 (Reserve)

Enforcing Judgments and Debts (Schwartz & Ahart)  KFC 1065 .S37 1988 (Reserve)

Family Law I (Hogoboom)  KFC 126 .H65 1982 (Reserve)

Federal Civil Procedure Before Trial (Schwarzer, Tashima, & Wagstaffe) KF 8900 .S39 1989 (Reserve)

*Federal Civil Trials and Evidence (Jones, Rosen, Wegner, & Jones)    KF 8935 .F37

Federal Employment Litigation (Rosen et al.)  KF 3319 .F43 (Reserve)

Federal Ninth Circuit Civil Appellate Practice (Nelson, Goelz, & Watts)  KF 9054 9th .N44 (Reserve)

Insurance Litigation (Croskey, Johnson, Heeseman)  KFC 290 .C76 2007 {Law School ed.} (Reserve)

Insurance Litigation (Croskey et al.)  KFC 290 .A6 C76 (Reserve)

Landlord-Tenant (Friedman, Garcia, Hagarty)  KFC 145 .F75 1989 (Reserve)

*Law Office Procedures Manual  KFC 77 .L422

Personal Injury (Flahavan, Rea, Kelly)  KFC 1028 .P4 F52 (Reserve)

*Probate (Ross)  KFC 205 .Z9 R67 1986

Professional Responsibility (Vapnek, Tuft, Peck, Wiener)  KFC 76.5 .A2 C37 (Reserve)

*Real Property Transactions (Greenwald & Asimow)  KFC 169 .A6 G74

*Sex Crimes: California law and procedure (Couzens, Bigelow)  KFC 1122 .C68

LexisNexis Academic Universe is a UCLA subscription database. Please see the Database Access LibGuide for more information on subscription databases.

Academic Universe includes the full-text of American Jurisprudence 2d as well as several other Legal Reference Sources such as Ballentine's Law Dictionary, Bieber's Dictionary of Legal Abbreviations, A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage, Modern Dictionary for the Legal Profession, Martindale-Hubbell Legal Professionals Listings, and Martindale-Hubbell Law School Directory.

The Law Library's Digital Collection page provides links to a variety of online resources to assist law students and faculty with their research. Some databases are available to the entire campus. The following databases include legal secondary sources:

• CCH IntelliConnect
• RIA Checkpoint
• Bureau of National Affairs (BNA)
• OnLaw (CEB) 
• Loislaw (if you are on campus, you will be signed on as UCLA, click "Continue" (under "Welcome") on the upper left)

Please note that due to licensing restrictions, the databases that include a "Law School Only" note are restricted to users with UCLA Law School IP Addresses.

For a list of CCH titles available on IntelliConnect, open the 4-page Word document linked below.

The links below will help users find treatises using OnLaw, LexisNexis, and Westlaw.