Family Law Research
Current Awareness:
The most recent issues are available in print in the Hastings Law Library. You may want to consult these first and then look at the online versions.
The
Family Law Reporter
(KF503.4 .B7)
http://0-pubs.bna.com.hopac.uchastings.edu/ip/BNA/FLR.NSF
Westlaw
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California
Family Law Report
(KFC115 .A16 C3)
WESTLAW
California
Family Law Monthly
(KFC115. A15 C35)
LEXIS
New
York Times - Family Law Stories
LEXIS
Family
Law Prof Blog
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/family_law
ABA
Section of Family Law
http://www.abanet.org/family
Treatises & Practice Guides:
All titles are available in the Hastings Law Library
Domestic
Torts: Family Violence, Conflict and Sexual Abuse
Thomson/West
(KF1269 .K37 2005)
Domestic
Violence Practice and Procedure
Thomson/West
(KF1269 .L44)
Child
Custody & Visitation Law and Practice
Matthew Bender
(KF547 .C47)
Modern
Child Custody Practice
LEXIS Publishing
(KF505.5 .A98)
California
Child Custody Litigation and Practice
Continuing Education of the Bar
(KFC130 .C355)
Handling
Child Custody, Abuse, and Adoption Cases
Thomson/West
(KF547 .H37 1993)
Representing
the Child Client
Matthew Bender
(KF479 .R46 1987)
Representing
Children in Child Protective Proceedings: Ethical and Practical
Dimensions
LEXIS Publishing
(KF3735 .P47 2001)
Lexis & Westlaw:
Lexis:
Legal
> Area of Law - By Topic > Family Law > ...
• California Family Law Monthly
• The New York Times - Family Law Stories
• Matthew Bender Materials
Westlaw:
All
Databases > Topical Materials by Area of Practice > Family Law ...
• WESTLAW Topical Highlights - Family Law
• California Family Law Report - All CFLR Publications
• West Treatises and Practice Materials
• Rutter California Practice Guides
• BNA Family Law Reporter
Other Online Databases:
Click on the database links below or go to the Hastings Seminar Research webpage or Hastings Electronic Resources webpage. [NOTE: From off-campus, you will have to enter your name and Hastings ID# in order to gain access to most of the Library's subscription databases.]
Proquest Research Library - A large collection of full-text articles from journals, magazines and newspapers for information on a broad range of general reference subjects such as business, political science, art, literature, law and psychology.
PsycArticles - Full-text articles from over 50 top psychology journals published by the American Psychological Association (APA), the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. PsycArticles includes over 39,000 full-text articles spanning a wide range of subjects from general psychology to specialized areas within psychology.
Proquest Psychology Journals - Provides full-text access to a wide range of topics from leading psychology and psychosomatic publications. In addition to clinical and social psychology, it also provides coverage of related disciplines including genetics, psychology of business and economics, addiction, linguistics, neurology, social welfare, and more.
PsycBooks
- A searchable full-text database of scholarly books dating back
to 1806 from the
American Psychological Association and other distinguished publishers.
ABI/Inform Complete - includes full-text of 1000's of trade and industry periodicals and newsletters. Click on the "Databases Selected" link to see the entire list of databases you can search.
PsycInfo - Updated weekly, PsycInfo contains citations and summaries of articles from journals, books, book chapters, dissertations, and technical reports. This index is NOT full-text.
FirstSearch: WorldCat & ArticleFirst databases: Select WorldCat and you will search to see what books are available in nearly every academic library in the United States. Select ArticleFirst to search and index of 1000's of article. Most articles are not available in full-text.
Legal Scholarship Network (LSN) - A searchable database of abstracts of working papers as well as articles accepted for publication. LSN includes many full text articles not available elsewhere. The goal of LSN is to facilitate the quick distribution of scholarly information related to law.
Law Journal Indexes - To find law review articles, you can search the full-text law reviews in Lexis or Westlaw, or you can search the journal indexes. The indexes contain more articles, but they are of course not full-text. There are two main law journal indexes: 1) Index to Legal Periodicals and 2) Legal Resource Index (also called LegalTrac or Current Law Index). A summary of the steps involved in finding law review articles is available on the Library's Preemption Check Webpage. The Library has also prepared a guide to print and online legal indexes.
Hein Online - Search Hein Online to locate pdf's of law review articles.Multistate Surveys:
Subject
Compilations of State Laws
(KF1 .N93)
Reference
National
Survey of State Laws
(KF242.A12 N38)
Reference
National
Conference of State Legislatures Legislative Tracking
http://www.ncsl.org/programs/lis/lrl/50statetracking.htm
Statistics:
The
Statistical Abstract of the United States
(HA202)
Reference
http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab
FedStats
http://www.fedstats.gov
Guide to State Statistical Abstracts
http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/st_abstracts.html
State and County Quick Facts
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd