| I. Primary Sources | II. Finding Aids | III. Updating the Law |
| IV. Legal Citations | V. Secondary Sources | VI. Electronic Sources |
Location information for titles of which the library may have multiple copies is limited to Grand
Reading Room (5th Floor, West Wing) and the Quarles and Brady Reading Room (5th Floor,
East Wing). Everything with “Ref” at the beginning of its call number is part of our Reference
Collection and is located in the Grand Reading Room. For additional sets, consult the library's
Location Guide, Resources by Title. Titles with CIMC locations are in the Center for
Instructional Materials and Computing, School of Education.
-Constitutions and Codes / Statutes
--Federal
United States Code (GPO), Title 20, Education - 5 East sec. 27
United States Code Annotated (West) - 5 East sec.28-29
United States Code Service (Lawyer Co-op) - 5 East sec. 28
United States School Laws and Rules (West) - KF/4105.99/U55
--Wisconsin
Wisconsin Statutes (Revisor of Statutes) - Ref/KFW/2929/A2
West's Wisconsin Statutes Annotated - Ref/KFW/2430/1957/A53
Updated Wisconsin School Laws (Wisconsin Assn. of School Boards) - Reserve
KFW/2790/W57
--Other state codes - 2 South & East (Alphabetically by state)
-Administrative Rules & Regulations
--Federal - Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Title 34, Education, & Federal
Register - 5 East sec. 30
-United States School Laws and Rules (West) - KF/4105.99/U55
--Wisconsin - Wisconsin Administrative Code & Register, Vol. 14, ch. PI, Dept. of
Public Instruction - Ref/KFW/2435/1956/A27
Updated Wisconsin School Laws (Wisconsin Assn. of School Boards) - Reserve
KFW/2790/W57
.
-Court Decisions
--Federal court reporters - 5 East
--Wisconsin Reports - Ref/KFW/2445/A2
--Northwestern Reporter - 5 West s. 3-4
--Other regional reporters - 5 West s. 2-8 (Alphabetically by name)
--Other state reporters - 2 South & East (Alphabetically by state)
--West's Education Law Reporter - Ref/KF/4110/A2/W47
-Administrative Decisions
--West's Education Law Reporter - Ref/KF/4110/A2/W47
Opinions and orders of the United States Department of Education Office of
Hearings and Appeals, including decisions by the Education Appeals Board and
the Civil Rights Reviewing Authority.
-Annotated codes & statutes, e.g. United States Code Annotated & West's Wisconsin
Statutes Annotated. Annotations provide references to case law, attorney general
opinions, administrative regulations, periodical articles, and other sources.
-Digests (General)
--Federal
West's federal digests - 5 East sec. 1-5
U.S. Supreme Court digests - 5 East sec. 15 & 19
A Digest of Supreme Court Decisions Affecting Education. 4th ed. 2001 - CIMC
Professional Stacks (Book and CD-ROM)
--Wisconsin
Callaghan's Wisconsin Digest - Ref/KFW/2457/C34
West's Wisconsin Key Number Digest - Ref/KFW/2457/W47
North Western Digest 2d - 5 West s. 9
--General Digest/American Digest System - 5 West s. 8-9 (Covers both state and
federal court decisions.)
-Specialty digests
West's Education Law Digest - Ref/KF/4110.3/W47
School Law Reporter - KF/4114/N35
-Annotated codes/statutes
--Usually updated with pocket parts, paper supplements, and a legislative service.
For example, West's Wisconsin Statutes Annotated supplements its bound
volumes with pocket parts, a paperback Interim Annotations Service, and with
West's Wisconsin Legislative Service.
--Official indexes and bill status publications, e.g. the Bulletin of the Proceedings
of the Wisconsin Legislature, Ref/KFW/2412/W57, lists new Acts.
-Administrative Regulations
--Annual Code of Federal Regulations titles updated by the daily Federal
Register.
--The Wisconsin Administrative Code is in looseleaf format and is updated
monthly. Consult the semi-monthly Administrative Register for Emergency Rules
in effect.
--Other states - Varies
-Cases and Statutes - Shepard's Citations: LexisNexis (lawschool.lexis.com) and
LexisNexis Academic (U.S. Supreme Court decisions only); Shepard's Wisconsin
Citations (print) Ref/KFW/2459/S53
Westlaw KeyCite (Non-law students - Use Westlaw Patron Access, Law Library Public
Workstations)
-Citation Formats - The following are typical of legal citations, which usually make use
of abbreviated titles, but may not necessarily be in exact "Blue Book" form. (Citations
frequently vary according to the citing source.) Refer to The Blue Book: A Uniform
System of Citation (infra.), Wisconsin Guide to Taxation (infra.), and local court rules for
proper citation forms.
--Codified laws or statutes: abbreviated title-section-(year), e.g. Wis. Stat. sec.
118.15 (2001-2002)
--Session laws: name of act, act or chapter number, year-abbreviated title-page
number, e.g. Act of April 15, 1978, Act 285, 1987 Wis. Laws 1019
--Court decisions: case name, volume-abbreviated title-series page (year) (parallel
citations to other reporters often follow), e.g. Wisconsin v. Yoder, 49 Wis. 2d
430, 182 N.W.2d 539 (1971), aff'd, 406 U.S. 205, 92 S.Ct. 1526, 32 L.Ed. 15
(1972)
--Periodical articles: author, article title, volume number-periodical abbreviation-
page number (year), e.g. Debra D. McVicker, "The Interest of the Child in the
Home Education Question: Wisconsin v. Yoder Re-examined," 18 Ind. L. Rev.
711 (1985)
-Sources for deciphering legal abbreviations
_ Bieber's Dictionary of Legal Abbreviations, 5th ed. - Ref/KF/246/B46/2000
--Black's Law Dictionary, 7th ed. - Reserve & Ref/KF/156/B53/1999;
--Legal research text appendices - (Seesection VI, infra.)
-Sources for citation forms
--Bieber's Dictionary of Legal Citations, 6th ed. - Ref/KF/246/P73/2001
--The Blue Book: A Uniform System of Citation, 17th ed. - Reserve & Ref.
KF/245/U55/2001
--Wisconsin Guide to Citation, 5th ed. - Ref/2475/W57/2001
-Dictionary - Education and the Law: A Dictionary - Ref/KF/4117/T39/1996
-Legal encyclopedias
--American Jurisprudence 2d (AmJur 2d) - Ref/KF/154/A47
--Corpus Juris Secundum (CJS) - Ref/KF/154/C57
-ALRs
--American Law Reports (ALR) Ref/KF/132/A52
--American Law Reports Federal (ALR Fed) - Ref/KF/132/47
-Education law periodicals / annuals
--Brigham Young University Education and Law Journal - 3 South Periodical
Stacks
--Journal of Law & Education (Jefferson Law Book Co.) - 3 East Periodical
Stacks
_ELA Notes (Education Law Association) - 3 South, KF/4119.3/N38
--School Law Bulletin (Institute of Government, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill) - 3 East Periodical Stacks
_School Law Bulletin (LRP Publications) - LexisNexis
--School Law News (Capitol Publications) - 3 East Periodical Stacks
--The Schools and the Courts: Briefs of Selected Court Cases Involving Secondary
and Elementary Schools (School Administration Publications) - 3 East
Periodical Stacks. Available only online from v. 30, no. 4 (Nov. 2004) - v. 32, no.
4 (Nov. 2006). (UW-Madison licensed resource.) Ceased publication.
http://www.collegepubs.com/refweb-stc/reference_intro.php
--West's Education Law Quarterly - Ref/KF/4110/A2/W48 Ceased publication
after v. 5, no. 4 (October 1996). [Holdings: v. 1-4 (1992-1995)].
“Commentaries” first appeared in West's Education Law Reporter -
Ref/KF/4110/A2/W47]
_West's Education Law Reporter - Ref/KF/4110/A2/W47 “Commentaries” that
first appear in the paperback advance sheets later appear as “Comments” in the
bound volumes.
--Yearbook of Education Law. (Education Law Association) - KF/4102.5/Y4
Also published in electronic format:
http://madcat.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=7319914
-Periodical index
--Index to Legal Periodicals and Books - UW-Madison Libraries & Law Library
Networks. Coverage begins in 1918. (A hard copy set of ILP is located on one of
the index tables, 5 West. Coverage begins in 1908.)
-Handbooks / Nutshells / Texts/ Treatises
--Alexander, Kern and M. David. American Public School Law. 6th ed.
Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Pub. Co., 2005. CIMC Reference Stacks
KF/4118/A39/2005
--________________________. Law of Schools, Students, and Teachers in a
Nutshell. 4th ed. St. Paul: West Group, 2009. Reserve/KF/4119.3/A43/2009
--DeMitchell, Todd A. Negligence: What Principals Need to Know About
Avoiding Liability. Lanham, Md.: Rowan & Littlefield Education, 2007.
CIMC Professional Stacks KF/4133/D46/2007
--Dishman, Mike L. The Fair Labor Standards Act in American Schools: A Guide
for School Officials. Lanham, Md.: Rowan & Littlefield Education, 2007.
CIMC Professional Stacks KF/4185/D57/2007
--Dodd, Victoria J. Practical Education Law for the Twenty-first Century.
Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2003. KF/4119/D63/2002
_Gerstein, Ralph M.and Lois R. Gerstein. Education Law: An Essential Guide for
Attorneys, Teachers, Administrators, Parents and Students. 2nd ed. Tucson, AZ:
Lawyers & Judges Pub. Co. Inc., 2007
CIMC Reference Stacks KF/4119/G47/2007
_Guernsey, Thomas F. and Kathe Klare. Special Education Law. 2nd ed.
Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2001. KF/4210/G83/2001
--Fisher, Louis, David Schimmel, and Leslie Stellman. Teachers and the Law.
6th ed. Boston, Allyn and Bacon, 2003.
CIMC Professional Stacks KF/4175/Z9/F55/2003
--Hinchey, Patricia H. Student Rights: A Reference Handbook. Santa Barbara,
Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2001. Ref/KF/4150/H56/2001
--Manos, Mary Ann. Knowing Where to Draw the Line: Ethical and Legal
Standards for Best Classroom Practice. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers,
2006. KF/4159/M36/2006
--Mawdsley, Ralph D. Legal Problems of Religious and Private Schools. 5th ed.
Dayton, Ohio: Education Law Association, 2006. KF/4124/M39/2006
--May It Please the Court: Courts, Kids, and the Constitution. Edited by Peter
Irons. New York: New Press, 2000. Book + four cassettes. Cassettes contain
live recordings of sixteen U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments on the
Constitutional rights of students and teachers. Reserve/KF/4150/A7/R37/2000
--McCarthy, Martha M. and Nelda H. Cambron-McCabe. Public School Law:
Teachers' and Students' Rights. 4th ed. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1998. CIMC
Professional Stacks KF/4119/M38/1998 (Temporarily shelved at CIMC Reserve
Collection.)
--The Principal's Legal Handbook. Kenneth E. Lane [et. al.], editors. 4th ed.
Dayton, Ohio.: Education Law Association, 2008. KF/390//E3/P75/2008
--Rapp, James A. Education Law. New York, N.Y.: M. Bender, 1985- 7 v.
(loose-leaf)
Wisconsin State Law Library KF/4115/E38
--Raskin, Jamin B. We the Students: Supreme Court Decisions for and about
Students. 3rd ed. Washington, D.C., CQ Press, 2008.
KF/4150//R37/2008
--Russo, Charles J. The Law of Public Education. 5th ed. New York, N.Y.:
Foundation Press, 2004. (University Casebook Series)
Reserve KF/4118/R4/1994
--Russo, Charles J. and Ralph D. Mawdsley. Education Law. New York, N.Y.:
Law Journal Press, 2002. (Education Law Series)
Wisconsin State Law Library KF/4110 .R87 2002
--School Law in Wisconsin. By Dana J. Erlandsen [et. al.] Eau Claire, WI: NBI
Inc., 2002. KFW/2790/A75/A53/2002
--School Law Issues in Wisconsin. By David R. Friedman [et. al.] Eau Claire, WI:
NBI Inc., 2000. KFW/2790/A75/A53/2000
--School Violence: From Discipline to Due Process. James C. Hanks, editor. 1st
ed. Chicago, Ill: Section of State and Local Government Law, American Bar
Association, 2004. KF/4159/S36/2004
--Schneider, Ronna Greff. Education Law: First Amendment, Due Process and
Discrimination. [Eagan, MN]: Thomson/West, 2004. 2 v. KF/4119/S364/2004
--Shoop, Robert J. and Dennis R. Dunklee. Anatomy of a Lawsuit. Thousand
Oaks, Calif.: Corwin Press, 2006. CIMC Professional Stacks
KF/4119.8/E3/S54/2006
--Vacca, Richard S. And William C. Bosher, Jr. Law and Education:
Contemporary Issues and Court Decisions. 6th ed. Newark, NJ: LexisNexis,
2003. KF/4119/H82/2003
-Legal Research Guides
--Cohen, Morris L. and Kent C. Olson. Legal Research in a Nutshell. 9th ed. St.
Paul, Minn.: Thomson/West, 2007. Reserve KF/240/C6/2007
--Legal Research in Wisconsin. 2d ed. Theodore A. Potter, General Editor.
Buffalo, NY.: William S. Hein & Co., 2008. Reserve, Reference, Reference Desk
KFW/2475/L44/2008
--Hilyerd, William A. “Using the Law Library: A Guide for Educators-Part I:
Untangling the Legal System,” 33 Journal of Law & Education 213-224 (April
2004).
--________________. “Using the Law Library: A Guide for Educators-Part II:
Deciphering Citations & Other Ways of Locating Court Opinions,” 33 Journal of
Law & Education 365-381 (July 2004)
--________________. “Using the Law Library: A Guide for Educators-Part III:
Oh, Statute (or Regulation), Where Art Thou?” 34 Journal of Law & Education
101-116 (January 2005).
--________________. “Using the Law Library: A Guide for Educators-Part IV:
Secondary Sources to the Rescue. 34 Journal of Law & Education 273-292 (April
2005).
--________________. “Using the Law Library: A Guide for Educators-Part V:
Finding Legal Materials by Topic. 34 Journal of Law & Education 533-553
(October 2005)
--Kunz, Christina L. and others. The Process of Legal Research. 6th ed.
Gaithersberg MD: Aspen Law & Business, 2004. Reserve KF/240/P76/2004
--Mersky, Roy M. and Donald J. Dunn. Fundamentals of Legal Research. 8th ed.
New York, N.Y.: Foundation Press, 2000. Reserve and Ref/KF/240/J3/2000
--Redfield, Sarah E. Thinking Like a Lawyer: An Educatior's Guide to Legal
Analysis and Research. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2002.
KF/241/E38/R43/2002.
--Russo, Charles J. “Legal Research: The 'Traditional' Method.” Chapter 2 in
Research Methods for Studying Legal Issues in Education 5-24. Dayton, Ohio:
Education Law Association, 2006.
KF/241/E38/P47/2006
--Whiteman, Michael. “Education Law Research_Retrieving Statutes, Cases and
Law Review Commentary-A Primer for Non-Lawyers,” 32 Journal of Law &
Education 79-90 (January 2003).
-LexisNexis - UW-Madison law students, faculty, and staff receive individual passwords.
Other UW-Madison students, faculty, and library staff may access LexisNexis Academic
through the UW-Madison Libraries workstations located in campus libraries or from
residences or offices through WiscWorld.
-Law about...education law: an overview (Legal Information Institute) -
http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/education.html
Links to federal statutes, regulations, and case law. Also links to state material from
New York and California.
-Law Office Information Systems (LOIS) Professional Library - Law Library Network.
Wisconsin case law, statutes, administrative rules, and Attorney General opinions; United
States Supreme Court Reports starting with v. 338 (June 27, 1949); and U.S. Seventh
Circuit Court of Appeals decisions from October 4, 1971 to the present.
-United States Department of Education Publications. Legislation, Regulations, and
Policy Guidance Web page - http://www.ed.gov/pubs/legsregs.html
United States. House of Representatives. Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Compilation of Federal Education Laws.
http://edworkforce.house.gov/publications/compindex.htm
-Westlaw - Available only to UW-Madison Law School students, faculty, and staff for
educational purposes. Special practice area databases for education include the federal
code; case law (federal & state); and administrative law, including the Code of Federal
Regulations / Federal Register and U.S. Department of Education decisions.
-WisLaw (Revisor of Statutes) - Law Library Network. Wisconsin Statutes and
annotations; Wisconsin Administrative Code; Supreme Court Rules; Constitutions;
Attorney General Opinions; Wisconsin Acts.
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