This Guide describes a wide range of online legal research resources. It covers primary law, government resources, research guides, reference sources, forms, and legal news.
Attributed to Gerald and Kathleen Hill, Law.com's Dictionary can be searched in 3 different ways: enter a legal term, search the definitions, or browse by first letter of a word or phrase.
Wex is both a legal dictionary and encyclopedia offered by the Legal Information Institute at the Cornell Law School. Wex is "collaboratively created and edited by legal experts" and freely available to the public.
This site is maintained by Kelly L. Smith of the UC San Diego Library. Provides an alphabetical list of federal government abbreviations and acronyms (which are hyperlinked to the official Web site of the government agency or program in question).
Guide to abbreviations for English language legal publications from the British Isles, the Commonwealth, and the United States, including those covering international and comparative law. Maintained by Cardiff University in Wales.
A list of acronyms and abbreviations adapted from the Washington Legal Researcher's Deskbook, 3d (2002). Cheryl Nyberg, Gallagher Law Library, University of Washington School of Law.
A list of Bluebook abbreviations for journals that are indexed in the Current Index to Legal Periodicals. Provided by the Gallagher Law Library, University of Washington School of Law.
As previously mentioned, LexisNexis Academic is a UCLA subscription database. Please see the Database Access LibGuide for more information on subscription databases.
LexisNexis Academic includes several Legal Reference Sources: American Jurisprudence 2d, Ballentine's Law Dictionary, Bieber's Dictionary of Legal Abbreviations, Modern Dictionary for the Legal Profession, and LexisNexis Legal Directories.
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