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Administrative Law Resources at the Anchorage Law Library

Administrative Law Resources at the Anchorage Law Library. Susan Falk December 2006 sfalk@courts.state.ak.us (907) 264-0581. Library Hours. We’re here, live and in person, to serve you. Monday through Thursday, 8 to 6 Friday, 8 to 4:30 Sunday, 12 to 5. Contact Us.

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Administrative Law Resources at the Anchorage Law Library

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  1. Administrative Law Resources at the Anchorage Law Library Susan Falk December 2006 sfalk@courts.state.ak.us (907) 264-0581

  2. Library Hours • We’re here, live and in person, to serve you. • Monday through Thursday, 8 to 6 • Friday, 8 to 4:30 • Sunday, 12 to 5

  3. Contact Us • Call the Reference Desk: 907-264-0585 • Email us: library@courts.state.ak.us • Fax a request: 907-264-0733 • NEW Toll-Free Number for Alaska callers: (888) 282-2082 • Request forms available on our website: www.state.ak.us/courts/library.htm

  4. What are your research needs? • What are the biggest challenges in administrative law today? • Do you use a current awareness service? • How do you research issues? • What tools and resources do you use? • What tools and resources would you like to see in the library?

  5. Resources in the Library • Things you still can’t get online – Books! • Treatises and Law Reviews can be checked out by Bar members • We can mail them to you if you’re not in Anchorage

  6. Treatises • Administrative Law Treatise, Pierce and Davis • Administrative Law & Practice, Koch • Administrative Law: Practice and Procedure, Modjeska • Administrative Rulemaking, O’Reilly • Developments in Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice 2004-2005, Lubbers • Administrative Law & Process in a Nutshell

  7. Alaska Administrative Material • Alaska Workers’ Compensation Decisions • Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission Decisions • Revenue Hearing Decisions • 1956-1993 • Alaska Public Utilities Commission Reporter Plus… • Complete set of Alaska Administrative Code Registers

  8. By Kenneth Culp Davis • First 3 editions of Administrative Law Treatise • Administrative Law of the Seventies • Administrative Law of the Eighties • Administrative Law and Government • Administrative Law Text

  9. Law Journals • Administrative Law Review • Administrative & Regulatory Law News • Administrative Judiciary News & Journal • Administrative Notes

  10. And… • What else do you wish we had?

  11. Westlaw at the Library • Free • All federal and state statutes • All federal and all state case law • Keyciting – update the statutes or cases • Am.Jur. Legal Forms • Law Review articles • Alaska briefs are being added • Administrative Law databases focus your search

  12. HeinOnline • A free online database available in the law library • Features an enormous library of journals, including over over 1100 titles, usually back to the first volume • Federal materials include Federal Register, CFR, U.S. Attorney General Opinions, U.S. Statutes at Large, federal legislative history, and more

  13. State Resources Online • Links to all state legal resources at court website: http://www.state.ak.us/courts • Includes links to state sites for: • Alaska statutes • http://www.legis.state.ak.us/folhome.htm • Alaska administrative code • http://www.legis.state.ak.us/cgi-bin/folioisa.dll/aac? • Alaska court rules • http://www.state.ak.us/courts/rules.htm

  14. Alaska Case Law Database • http://government.westlaw.com/akcases • Alaska Supreme Court and Court of Appeals • All published opinions back to 1960 • Unpublished decisions (MOJs) back to 1991, with older decisions being added • No headnotes or keyciting

  15. Different Ways to Search • Search by • Case name • Attorney • Pacific Reporter citation or WL citation • Decision date • Judge name • Opinion type • Docket number • Word

  16. How to Search by Word AND, OR, BUT NOT • Truncation ! • regulat! will find regulation and regulatory • Search by phrase – use quotes • “administrative law judge” • Use the singular form – it will automatically look for plurals • worker will find worker, workers, worker’s, and workers’

  17. Case Law Database Searching • Once you’re in a case, can use Control-F to find specific search terms • Space = OR so remember to type AND if you are looking for both terms in a case • Example • utility and regulat! • “administrative law judge” A.L.J.

  18. Is it Still Good Law? • There is no citator service in the database • Instead, use the name of the case as the search term for a word search • All cases discussing that case will come up

  19. The Library is Here to Help • Call the library reference desk if you have questions: (907) 264-0585 • Reference librarians can walk you through Westlaw searching or finding a website to help • We have thousands of forms available • Catalog is on-line: http://www.state.ak.us/courts/library.htm • You can check out treatises for 3 days • We will mail them to you if you live outside Anchorage • We can sometimes email and fax documents

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