14 May 2008

Bibliography: Outline of the U.S. Legal System

BOOKS

Administrative Office of the United States Courts. United States Courts: Their Jurisdiction and Work. Washington, DC: 1989.

Fallon, Richard H., Hart, Henry Melvin, and Wechsler, Herbert. Hart and Wechsler's the Federal Courts and the Federal System, 5th ed. New York, NY: Foundation Press, 2003.

Baum, Lawrence. American Courts: Process and Policy. 5th ed. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2001.

Chemerinsky, Erwin. Federal Jurisdiction, 4th ed. New York, NY: Aspen Publishers, 2003.

Feinman, Jay M. Law 101: Everything You Need to Know About the American Legal System. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, Inc., 2000.

Franklin, Carl J. Constitutional Law for the Criminal Justice Professional. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 1999.

Friedman, Lawrence Meir. Law in America: A Short History. New York, NY: Modern Library, 2002.

Mullenix, Linda S., Martin Redish, and Georgene Vairo. Understanding Federal Courts and Jurisdiction. New York, NY: Matthew Bender, 1998.

Posner, Richard A., The Federal Courts: Challenge and Reform. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996.

Stumpf, Harry P. American Judicial Politics, 2nd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1998.

WEB SITES

Federal Courts and What They Do
http://www.fjc.gov/public/pdf.nsf/lookup/FCtsWhat.pdf/$file/FCtsWhat.pdf

The Federal Court System in the United States: An Introduction for Judges and Judicial Administrators in Other Countries
http://www.uscourts.gov/library/internationalbook-fedcts2.pdf

InfoUSA – Judicial Branch
http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/politics/judbranc.htm

Introduction to the Legal System
http://www.cec.org/pubs_info_resources/law_treat_agree/summary_enviro_law/publication/usdoc.cfm?varlan=english&topic=1

JURIST: The Legal Education Network
http://www.jurist.law.pitt.edu/

Law Library Resource Exchange
http://www.llrx.com/

Legal Encyclopedia
http://www.nolo.com/lawcenter/ency/index.cfm

Library of Congress: Guide to Law Online
http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/us.html

National Center for State Courts – Court Information Database
http://www.ncsconline.org/WC/CourTopics/topiclisting.asp

Prosecutors in State Courts, 2001
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/psc01.pdf

State Court Organization, 1998
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/sco98.pdf

The Supreme Court of the United States
http://www.supremecourtus.gov

Understanding the Federal Courts
http://www.uscourts.gov/understand03/