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Civil Liberties and Civil Rights Resource Guide

This selective guide highlights major print and electronic resources available to Cleveland-Marshall College of Law students researching issues in Civil Liberties and Civil Rights.  Please contact the research services staff during research services hours, or via email to research.services@law.csuohio.edu, for help in locating these or other resources to meet your needs.


Some of the links below lead to CALI, LexisNexis, and Westlaw files, which require a College of Law student password for access.  [If you connect to any of these files, be sure to log out of the system at the end of your research.]  Other links lead to records in SCHOLAR, the Cleveland State University electronic catalog.  Use your browser's "Back" button to return to this Civil Liberties and Civil Rights Resource Guide.

Introduction

Cases

Constitutions and Background Materials

Treatises and Practice Guides

Study Aids

Searching SCHOLAR and OhioLINK

Journal Articles and Current Awareness Services

Aggregate Databases and Other Web Resources

 

Introduction

Civil liberties are based upon concepts of individual freedom and the freedom from interference, be such interference governmental or non-governmental. Civil rights are based upon concepts of equality and government involvement in the assurance of individuals being treated equally. Civil liberties and civil rights are addressed in principles of constitutional law, which also addresses allocation of government powers.  Key civil liberties and civil rights issues include freedom of expression, freedom of religion, due process, and equal protection, as well as judicial review, federal jurisdiction, federal executive powers, federal legislative powers, and powers of the states.  US Supreme Court cases are emphasized in civil liberties and civil rights law, because the US Supreme Court has a critical role in the interpretation of the Constitution.

If you're a student who's trying to pick a topic in civil liberties or civil rights for a note or article, check out Lawtopic.com and review its Civil Rights and Constitutional Law sections.  Also, consider reviewing current issues and hot topics on news Web sites such as American Lawyer Media's   American LawyerLaw.Com, National Law Journal, and New York Law Journal, as well as Lawyers Weekly.

 

Cases

Supreme Court of the United States

Includes docket, court rules, case handling guides, opinions (coverage begins in 2001), oral arguments (selected coverage begins in 2000), orders (coverage begins in 2000), and Supreme Court Journal (coverage begins in 1993).

Cornell University Law School Legal Information Institute's Supreme Court Collection

Searchable database of opinions, with full coverage from 1990 to the present, as well as 600 historical decisions.  Also includes calendar, schedule of oral arguments, judicial biographies, court rules, and several links to other Web-based materials.

U.S. Courts:  The Federal Judiciary

The Administrative Office of the US Courts provides links to all U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals and District Courts, PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records) service center, and other federal court information.

Supreme Court of Ohio

Reporter of Decisions provides opinions issued since 1992.

Office of Public Information provides opinions and case summaries, oral argument summaries, news, and other materials.

Ohio Rules of Court (html and pdf versions).

 

LexisNexis Source Files:

Area of Law - By Topic > Constitutional Law & Civil Rights > Find Cases > Federal & State Cases - Selected Constitutional Law Material  Includes US Supreme Court; US Court of Appeals; Federal District Courts; case law for all 50 states, District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands and other US territories; as well as Military Appeals, Customs, Patents, Tax, Trade, Commerce, Veteran Appeals, and Bankruptcy specialty courts.

States Legal - U.S. > Combined States > Find Cases > By Area of Law > State Cases, Combined Courts - Selected Constitutional Law Material

States Legal - U.S. > Ohio > Find Cases > By Area of Law > OH Constitutional Cases   Includes Supreme Court since 1821, Court of Appeals since 1913, and miscellaneous courts since 1894.

See also individual source files in these LexisNexis Library sections:

Area of Law - By Topic > Constitutional Law & Civil Rights > Find Cases > Federal

Area of Law - By Topic > Constitutional Law & Civil Rights > Find Cases > By State

Federal Legal - U.S. > Combined Federal Court Cases

Federal Legal - U.S. > Supreme Court Cases & Materials

Federal Legal - U.S. > U.S. Courts of Appeals - By Circuit

Federal Legal - U.S. > District Court Cases - By Circuit

Federal Legal - U.S. > District Court Cases - By State

Westlaw Databases:

U.S. Federal Materials > Federal Cases & Judicial Materials > All U.S. Supreme Court Cases (SCT)  Note that pre-1945 cases are in the SCT-OLD database.

U.S. State Materials > Case Law > Multistate Cases Organized by Area of Practice > Civil Rights (MCIV-CS).  Cases concerning violations of individual rights and discrimination from state courts of all 50 states and District of Columbia.  Coverage varies by state.

U.S. State Materials > Ohio > Cases > Case Law Organized by Practice Area or Topic > Civil Rights (OHCIV-CS)   Cases concerning violations of individual rights and discrimination from Ohio state courts.  Coverage begins with 1821.

See also individual databases in these Westlaw Directory sections:

Topical Materials by Area of Practice > Civil Rights > Federal Cases

Topical Materials by Area of Practice > Constitutional Law > U.S. Federal Cases

U.S. Federal Materials > Federal Cases & Judicial Materials > Judicial Materials > U.S. Supreme Court Databases

U.S. Federal Materials > Federal Cases & Judicial Materials > Courts of Appeals Cases by Circuit

U.S. Federal Materials > Federal Cases & Judicial Materials > District Court Cases Organized by Court of Appeals Circuits after 1944

U.S. Federal Materials > Federal Cases & Judicial Materials > District Court Cases Organized by State and Territory - after 1944

See also Civil Rights and Constitutional Law section of KeySearch.

 

Constitutions and Background Materials

U.S. Constitution

State Legal Materials - By State

[Both links via Cornell University Law School's  Legal Information Institute. ]

A Century of Lawmaking For a New Nation:  U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates

Includes materials from the Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention as well as Statutes, Documents, Congressional Journals, and Congressional Debates.  [Provided by the Library of Congress American Memory Web site.]

The Federalist Papers

Eighty-five essays, written between October 1787 and May 1788, by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison.  [Provided by the Library of Congress THOMAS Web site of federal legislative information.]

The Founders' Constitution

Web-based version, provided by the University of Chicago Press and Liberty Fund, of the multi-volume anthology edited by Philip B. Kurland and Ralph Lerner.  Includes a wide assortment of documents, from the early 1600s to the 1830s, regarding constitutional government and the US Constitution, arranged by constitutional themes as well as by Articles and Clauses of the US Constitution and the Amendments.

FindLaw's Constitutional Law Center U.S. Constitution Materials

Analysis and annotations arranged by the US Constitution Articles and Amendments.  Based on the Library of Congress Congressional Research Service 1992 document edited by Johnny H. Killian and George A. Costello, as well as the 1996 and 1998 supplements edited by Johnny H. Killian, George A. Costello, and Kenneth R. Thomas.  Includes links to cited US Supreme Court cases.

 

Ohio Constitution

1851 Constitution with Amendments to 1999.  [Provided by the Ohio General Assembly.]

Ohio Fundamental Documents

Includes 1787 Ordinance of the Northwest Territory, 1802 and 1851 Constitutions of the State of Ohio, and other historical materials.  [Provided by the Ohio Historical Society.]

 

Treatises and Practice Guides


Selected significant treatises and practice guides in the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Library collection discussing issues of Civil Liberties and Civil Rights include the following:

Alienable Rights: the Exclusion of African Americans in a White Man's Land, 1619-2000 / Francis D. Adams and Barry Sanders.  HarperCollins Publisher, c2003.   E185 .A233 2003

All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half Century of Brown v. Board of Education / Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.  W.W. Norton & Co., c2004.  Special Collections KF4757 .O35 2004

America's Unpatriotic Acts: the Federal Government's Violation of Constitutional and Civil Rights / Walter M. Brasch.  Peter Lang, c2005.   JC599 .U5 B67 2005

American Indian Politics and the American Political System / David E. Wilkins.  Rowman & Littlefield, c2002.   E98 .T77 W545 2002

American National Security and Civil Liberties in an Era of Terrorism / David B. Cohen and John W. Wells, eds.  Palgrave Macmillan, c2004.   JC599 .U5 A4985 2004

The Anatomy of Racial Inequality / Glenn C. Loury.  Harvard University Press, c2002.   E185.615 .L675 2002

At War with Civil Rights and Civil Liberties / Thomas E. Baker.  Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2006.   KF4749 .A89 2006

The Bill of Rights / Tom Head, ed.  Greenhaven Press, c2004.   KF4744 2004

The Bill of Rights: a History in Documents / John J. Patrick.  Oxford University Press, c2003.   KF4750 .P274 2003

Black, White, and Brown: the Landmark School Desegregation Case in Retrospect / Clare Cushman and Melvin I. Urofsky, eds.  Supreme Court Historical Society / CQ Press, c2004.   KF228 .B76 B58 2004

Brown at 50: the Unfinished Legacy, a Collection of Essays / Deborah L. Rhode and Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., eds..  Greenwood Press, c2001.   KF4155 .B77 2004

Brown v. Board of Education: Caste, Culture, and the Constitution / Robert J. Cottrol, Raymond T. Diamond, and Leland B. Ware.  University Press of Kansas, c2003.   KF4155 .B758 2003

Brown v. Board: the Landmark Oral Argument before the Supreme Court / Leon Friedman, ed.  Free Press, c2004.   KF4155 .B76 2004

Capitalist Punishment: Prison Privatization & Human Rights / Andrew Coyle, Allison Campbell, and Rodney Neufeld, eds.  Clarity Press; Zed Books, c2003.  HV9469 .C37 2003

Civil Liberties in America: a Reference Handbook / Samuel Walker.  ABC-CLIO, c2004.   KF4749 .W35 2004

Civil Peace and the Quest for Truth: the First Amendment Freedoms in Political Philosophy and American Constitutionalism / Murray Dry.  Lexington Books, c2004.   KF4783 .D79 2004

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 / Robert H. Mayer, ed..  Greenhaven Press, c2004.   KF4749 .C58 2004

The Civil Rights Movement: Struggle and Resistance / William T. Martin.  Palgrave Macmillan, c2004.   E185.61 .R514 2004

The Clean Water Act and the Constitution: Legal Structure and the Public's Right to a Clean and Healthy Environment / Robin Kundis.  Environmental Law Institute, c2004.   KF3790 .C73 2004

The Coming Free / David Rubel.  DK Pub., c2005.   E185.61 .R9155 2005

Congress and the Politics of Emerging Rights / Colton C. Campbell and John F. Stack, Jr.  Rowman & Littlefield, c2002.   KF4749 .C644 2002

Constitutional Debate in Action: Civil Rights & Liberties / H.L. Pohlman.  Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2004.   KF4748 .P64 2004

Constitutional Law and Politics / David M. O'Brien.  Norton, c2003.   KF4541 .A7 O27 2003

Constitutional Rights: Myths and Realities / Christopher E. Smith.  Thomson/Wadsworth, c2004.   KF4749 .S63 2004

Constructing Civil Liberties: Discontinuities in the Development of American Constitutional Law / Ken I. Kersch.  Cambridge University Press, c2004.   KF4749 .K47 2004

Courts and the Culture Wars / Bradley C.S. Watson, ed.  Lexington Books, c2002.   KF5130 .C68 2002

Covering: the Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights / Kenji Yoshino.  Random House, c2006.   KF373 .A3 Y67 2006

Criminal Procedure: Constitution and Society / Marvin Zalman.  Prentice Hall, c2002.   KF9618 .Z35 2002

Cultural Autonomy, Minority Rights, and Globalization / Steven C. Roach.  Ashgate, c2005.  JC312 .R63 2005

The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement / Lance Hill.  University of North Carolina Press, c2004.   E185.615 .H47 2004

Defendant Rights: a Reference Handbook / Hamid R. Kusha.  ABC-CLIO, c2004.  KF9625 .Z9 K87 2004

Defense, Liberty, and the Constitution: Exploring the Critical National Security Issues of Our Time / Ronald J. Sievert.  W.S. Hein, c2005.   KF4850 .S54 2005

Delivering Rights: How the Human Rights Act is Working / Jeffrey Jowell and Jonathan Cooper, eds.  Hart, c2003.   KF4080 .A75 D45 2003

Democracy Reborn: the Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in Post-Civil War America / Garrett Epps.  H. Holt, c2006.   KF4757 .E67 2006

The Derrick Bell Reader / Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, eds.  New York University Press, c2005.   KF4755 .B45 2005

Disability Civil Rights Law and Policy / Peter Blanck, et al.  Thomson/West, c2004.  KF480 .D57 2004

Disability Rights / Peter Blanck, ed.  Ashgate, c2005.  K637 .D576 2005

The Emerging Police State: Resisting Illegitimate Authority / William M. Kunstler; edited by Michael Steven Smith, Karin Kunstler Goldman, and Sarah Kunstler.  Ocean Press; Consortium Book Sales and Distribution, c2004.   KF373 .K8 K86 2004

Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties / Paul Finkelman, ed.  Routledge, c2006.   KF4747.5 .E53 2006

The Encyclopedia of Civil Liberties in America / David Schultz and John R. Vile, eds.  Sharpe Reference, c2005.   JC599 .U5 E53 2005

Enforcing Equality: Congress, the Constitution, and the Protection of Individual Rights / Rebecca E. Zietlow.  New York University Press, c2006.   KF4764 .Z54 2006

Ethnicity, Nationalism and Minority Rights / Stephen May, Tariq Modood, and Judity Squires, eds.  Cambridge University Press, c2004.   GN495.6 .E8934 2004

Eyes Off the Prize: the United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944-1955 / Carol Anderson.  Cambridge University Press, c2003.  E185.61 .A543 2003

The First Amendment in Schools: a Guide from the First Amendment Center / Charles C. Haynes, et al.  Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, c2003.   KF4124.5 .F57 2003

Fortress America: on the Front Lines of Homeland Security, an Inside Look at the Coming Surveillance State / Matthew Brzezinski.  Bantom Books, c2004.   UA23 .B78465 2004

The Four Freedoms under Siege: the Clear and Present Danger from Our National Security State / Marcus Raskin and Robert Spero.  Praeger, c2007.   JC599 .U5 R27 2007

Free for All: Defending Liberty in America Today / Wendy Kaminer.  Beacon Press, c2002.   KF4750 .K36 2002

Freedom and the Court: Civil Rights and Liberties in the United States / Henry J. Abraham and Barbara A. Perry.  University Press of Kansas, c2003.   KF4749 .A73 2003

Freedom or Security: the Consequences for Democracies Using Emergency Powers to Fight Terror / Michael Freeman.  Praeger, c2003.   JC571 .F6749 2003

Freedom's Sword: the NAACP and the Struggle against Racism in America, 1909-1969 / Gilbert Jonas.  Routledge, c2005.  E185.5 .N276 J66 2005

From Tyndale to Madison: How the Death of an English Martyr Led to the American Bill of Rights / Michael Farris.  B & H Pub. Group, c2007.   BV741 .F37 2007

Gender and the Civil Rights Movement / Peter J. Ling and Sharon Monteith, eds.  Rutgers University Press, c2004.   E185.61 .G284 2004

The Globalization of Human Rights / Jean-Marc Coicaud, Michael W. Doyle, and Anne-Marie Gardner, eds.  United Nations University Press, c2003.   JC571 .G5855 2003

The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights: from Emancipation to the Twenty-First Century / Charles D. Lowery and John F. Marszalek, eds.  Greenwood Press, c2003.   Reference E185.61 .E54 2003

Handbook on Mental Disability Law / John Parry and F. Philips Gilliam.  ABA Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law, c2002.  KF480 .Z9 P38 2002

How Patriotic is the Patriot Act?: Freedom Versus Security in the Age of Terrorism / Amitai Etzioni.  Routledge, c2004.   KF4850 .E899 2004

Human Rights: Concept and Context / Brian Orend.  Broadview Press, c2002.   JC571 .O74 2002

Human Rights in the War on Terror / Richard Ashby Wilson, ed.  Cambridge University Press, c2005.   JC585 .H865 2005

Human Rights Violations / Charles F. Bahmueller, ed.  Salem Press, c2003.   JC571 .H783 2003

The Impact of Human Rights Law on Armed Forces / Peter Rowe.  Cambridge University Press, c2006.  JC571 .R776 2006

In the Name of Necessity: Military Tribunals and the Loss of American Civil Liberties / Marouf Hasian, Jr.  University of Alabama Press, c2005.   KF7625 .H37 2005

An Introduction to Rights / William A. Edmundson.  Cambridge University Press, c2004.  JC571 .E42 2004

A Jailhouse Lawyer's Manual / Brooke Sealy, et al., eds.  Columbia Human Rights Law Review, c2005.  KFN6181.5 .J35 2005

Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Laws that Changed America / Nick Kotz.  Houghton Mifflin, c2005.   E847.2 .K67 2005

Justice at War: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights During Times of Crisis / Richard Delgado.  New York University Press, c2003.   E184 .A1 D328 2003

Justice for the Past / Stephen Kershnar.  State University of New York Press, c2004.  JC599 .U5 K447 2004

Language Rights and Political Theory / Will Kymlicka and Alan Patten, eds.  Oxford University Press, c2003.  P119.3 .L366 2003

Legislating Racism: the Billion Dollar Congress and the Birth of Jim Crow / Thomas Adams Upchurch.  University Press of Kentucky, c2004.   E185.61 .U63 2004

Leviathan: the Growth of Local Government and the Erosion of Liberty / Clint Bolick.  Hoover Institution Press; Stanford University, c2004.   JS331 .B65 2004

Liberties Lost: the Endangered Legacy of the ACLU / Woody Klein, ed.  Praeger Publishers, c2006.   JC599 .U5 L47 2006

Like a Loaded Weapon: the Rehnquist Court, Indian Rights, and the Legal History of Racism in America / Robert A. Williams, Jr.  University of Minnesota Press, c2005.   KF8210 .C5 W55 2005

The Logic of Constitutional Rights / Eric Heinze.  Ashgate, c2005.   KF4749 .H45 2005

Mark One or More: Civil Rights in Multiracial America / Kim M. Williams.  University of Michigan Press, c2006.  E184 .A1 W456 2006

Minority Rights in America / Alan Axelrod.  CQ Press, c2002.   JC599 .U5 A93 2002

The Minority Rights Revolution / John D. Skrentny.  Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, c2002.  JC571 .S62978 2002

Moral Controversies in American Politics / Raymond Tatalovich and Byron W. Daynes, eds.  M.E. Sharpe, c2005.   KF450 .P8 M67 2005

The Naked Crowd: Reclaiming Security and Freedom in an Anxious Age / Jeffrey Rosen.  Random House, c2004.   JC599 .U5 R635 2004

Not a Suicide Pact: the Constitution in a Time of National Emergency / Richard A. Posner.  Oxford University Press, c2006.   KF4749 .P67 2006

Not by Faith Alone: Religion, Law, and Adolescence / Roger J.R. Levesque.  New York University Press, c2002.  KF4783 .L476 2002

The Passion for Liberty / Tibor R. Machan.  Rowman & Littlefield, Ind., c2003.   JC599 .U5 M263 2003

Policing Hatred: Law Enforcement, Civil Rights, and Hate Crime / Jeannine Bell.  New York University Press, c2002.   KF9345 .B45 2002

The Politics of Prostitution: Women's Movements, Democratic States, and the Globalization of Sex Commerce / Joyce Outshoorn, ed.  Cambridge University Press, c2004.  HQ117 .P65 2004

The Politics of Rights: Lawyers, Public Policy, and Political Change / Stuart A. Scheingold.  University of Michigan Press, c2004.  KF4749 .S32 2004

Powers Reserved for the People and the States: a History of the Ninth and Tenth Amendments / Thomas B. McAffee, Jay S. Bybee, and A. Christopher Bryant.  Praeger Publishers, c2006.   KF4557 .M33 2006

The Price of Rights: the Courts, Government Largesse, and Fundamental Liberties / Daniel C. Kramer.  P. Lang, c2004.   KF4749 .K73 2004

Privacy Rights: Cases Lost and Causes Won before the Supreme Court / Alice Fleetwood Bartee.  Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2006.   KF4749 .B337 2006

Prohibited Government Acts: a Reference Guide to the United States Constitution / Jack Stark.  Praeger, c2002.   KF4550 .S73 2002

Race, Racism, and American Law / Derrick Bell.  Aspen Publishers, c2004.   KF4757 .B35 2004

Racial Justice in America: a Reference Handbook / David B. Mustard.  ABC-CLIO, c2003.   E185 .M95 2003

Reporting Civil Rights.  Library of America; Penguin Putnam, c2003.   E185.61 .R47 2003

Restoring Free Speech and Liberty on Campus / Donald Alexander Downs.  Independent Institute; Cambridge University Press, c2005.   LC72.2 .D69 2005

Retained by the People: the "Silent" Ninth Amendment and the Constitutional Rights Americans Don't Know They Have / Daniel A. Farber.  Basic Books, c2007.   KF4558 9th .F37 2007

Rights from Wrongs: a Secular Theory of the Origins of Rights / Alan Dershowitz.  Basic Books, c2004.   JC571 .D3985 2004

Rights of Inclusion: Law and Identity in the Life Stories of Americans with Disabilities / David M. Engel and Frank W. Munger.  University of Chicago Press, c2003.  KF480 .E494 2003

The Rights of Indians and Tribes: the Authoritative ACLU Guide to Indian and Tribal Rights / Stephen L. Pevar.  Southern Illinois University Press, c2002.   KF8210 .C5 P48 2002

Searches, Seizures and Drug Testing Procedures: Balancing Rights and School Safety / Charles J. Russo and Ralph d. Mawdsley.  LRP Publications, c2004.  KF4124.5 .R87 2004

Securing Constitutional Democracy: the Case of Autonomy / James E. Fleming.  University of Chicago Press, c2006.   KF4750 .F535 2006

Sexuality Law / Arthur S. Leonard and Patricia A. Cain.  Carolina Academic Press, c2005.   KF9325 .A7 L463 2005

Shouting Fire: Civil Liberties in a Turbulent Age / Alan M. Dershowitz.  Little Brown and Co., c2002.   JC599 .U5 D47 2002

Silencing Political Dissent / Nancy Chang and the Center for Constitutional Rights.  Seven Stories Press, c2002.   JC571 .C43 2002

The Slaughterhouse Cases: Regulation, Reconstruction, and the Fourteenth Amendment / Ronald M. Labb and Jonathan Lurie.  University Press of Kansas, c2003.   KF228 .S545 L33 2003

State Constitutional Law: Litigating Individual Rights, Claims, and Defenses / Jennifer Friesen.  LexisNexis, c2006.   KF4750 .Z95 F75 2006

A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow / David L. Chappell.  University of North Carolina Press, c2004.   E185.61 .C5435 2004

Supermax Prisons and the Constitution: Liability Concerns in the Extended Control Unit / William C. Collins.  U.S. Dept. of Justice, National Institute of Corrections, 2004.  HV9469 .C655 2004

The Supreme Court and Individual Rights / David G. Savage.  CQ Press, c2004.   KF4748 .W53 2004

Terrorism and Tyranny: Trampling Freedom, Justice, and Peace to Rid the World of Evil / James Bovard.  Palgrave Macmillan, c2003.   HV6432 .B67 2003

Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor / Evelyn Nakano Glenn.  Harvard University Press, c2002.  HN90 .S6 G554 2002

Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice / Jack Donnelly.  Cornell University Press, c2003.   JC571 .D75 2003

The U.S. Supreme Court and Medical Ethics: from Contraception to Managed Health Care / Bryan Hilliard.  Paragon House, c2004.   KF3821 .H55 2004

The War on Our Freedoms: Civil Liberties in an Age of Terrorism / Richard C. Leone and Greg Anrig, Jr., eds.  BBS PublicAffairs, c2003.   JC599 .U5 W313 2003

The War on the Bill of Rights and the Gathering Resistance / Nat Hentoff.  Seven Stories Press, c2003.   JC599 .U45 H46 2003

The Marriage Matters: America, Equality, and Gay People's Right to Marry / Evan Wolfson.  Simon & Schuster, c2004.   HG1034 .U5 W659 2004

Why Not Every Man?: African Americans and Civil Disobedience in the Quest for the Dream / George Hendrick and Willene Hendrick.  Ivan R. Dee, c2005.   E185 .H49 2005

Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988 / Brenda Gayle Plummer, ed.  University of North Carolina Press, c2003.   E744 .W5647 2003

Yellow: Race in America beyond Black and White / Frank H. Wu.  Basic Books, c2002.   E184 .O6 W84 2002

You Can't Say That: the Growing Threat to Civil Liberties from Antidiscrimination Laws / David E. Bernstein.  Cato Institute, c2003.   KF4749 .B47 2003

Your Rights: the Liberty Guide to Human Rights / Megan Addis and Penelope Morrow, eds.  Pluto, c2005.   KD4080 .C55 2005

 

Study Aids


CALI (Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction) Tutorials

Connect to the CALI Library of Lessons for a list of "Constitutional Law Lessons" and "Federal Courts Lessons" available to Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Students. You must register a personal password with CALI to use these CALI tutorials. [If you are a Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Student, and have not yet accessed CALI via our Law School subscription, Students click here .] The 16 CALI Constitutional Law Lessons cover Abortion; Commerce Clause Issues in Environmental Law; Constitutional Powers and Structures Review for Family Law; Constitutional Rights Review for Family Law; Constitutional Aspects of Family Law; Constitutional Placement of the Administrative Process; Defining the Term "Search"; Dormant Commerce Clause PodCast; Federal Commerce Power and Other Restrictions on State Regulatory Power; Fourth Amendment Overview; Freedom of Speech: Underpinnings and Justifications; Hearing Procedures Required by Due Process - The Basic Analysis; Injunctions Against Speech III; Probable Cause; Ripeness and Mootness; and Same-Sex Relationships.  The 2 CALI Federal Courts Lessons cover the Eleventh Amendment and Federal Habeas Corpus.

The CALI Constitutional Law and Federal Courts Lessons are also highlighted on the  Tutorials and Instructional Research Guides page of the Law Library Web site.

Civil Rights Law and Practice / Harold S. Lewis, Jr. and Elizabeth J. Norman.  Thomson/West, c2004.   KF4749 .L495 2004

Constitutional Law -- Individual Rights: Examples and Explanations / Allan Ides and Christopher N. May.  Aspen Publishers, c2007.   KF4749 .I34 2007

 

Searching SCHOLAR and OhioLINK   (SCHOLAR hands-on instruction)

SCHOLAR is the electronic catalog for Cleveland State University's Law Library and University Library.  CSU also participates in the state-wide consortia OhioLINK, which provides access to a state-wide central catalog and numerous research databases.  For treatises and other materials, search the SCHOLAR and OhioLINK catalogs with the subject headings   Civil Rights; Civil Rights - United States; Civil Rights - Ohio.  See also the 23+ Civil Rights Related Subject Headings.

 

Journal Articles and Current Awareness Services

See the Finding Articles in Law Reviews, Journals and Other Legal Periodicals guide for an explanation of the legal periodical indexes and databases available to Cleveland-Marshall College of Law students and the CSU community.  That guide covers print and electronic indexes, as well as electronic full-text journals.  In particular, note OhioLINK's  Electronic Journal Center and its Social Sciences - Politics, Political Science, and Law subject cluster.

Selected specialty journals and current awareness materials concerning Civil Liberties and Civil Rights in the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Library collection include:

Berkeley Journal of African-American Law & Policy.  University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law.   K1 .F74 & Electronic

New York Law School Journal of Human Rights.  The School.   K14 .E89 & Electronic

Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties.  The School.   K23 .T2166 & Electronic

Texas Journal on Civil Liberties & Civil Rights.  University of Texas School of Law.   Electronic

 

Aggregate Databases and Other Web Resources

American Civil Liberties Union

Cato Institute:  Civil Liberties

Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute:  Law about:   Civil Rights

FedLaw:   Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Equal Opportunity, and Discrimination

FindLaw:  Practice Areas:  Civil Rights

Internet Law Library:  Civil Liberties and Civil Rights

Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

LexisONE:  Legal Web Site Directory:  Practice Areas:   Civil Rights Resources

LexisNexis > Area of Law - By Topic > Constitutional Law & Civil Rights

Includes federal and state cases, statutes and legislative materials, administrative materials and regulations, law reviews and journals, treatises and analytical materials, general news and information, legal news, legal reference materials, general news and information, and public records.

MegaLaw.com - Legal Research - Topic Index -  Civil Rights

OhioLINK Research Databases:   Law and Legislation

Includes LexisNexis Academic, PAIS International, Papers First, Proceedings First, Social Sciences Citation Index.

U.S. Department of Homeland Security:  Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties

The Virtual Chase - Legal Research Guide - Legal Subjects -   First Amendment Law

Westlaw:  Topical Materials by Area of Practice >

Civil Rights

Includes federal and state cases, federal and state statutes and legislation, federal and state administrative materials, treatises, law reviews, journals, newsletters.

Constitutional Law
Includes federal and state cases, US Constitution, federal and state statutes and legislation, treatises, law reviews and journals, newsletters, directories, and notable trials.

 

Laura E. Ray, MA, MLS

Educational Programming Librarian

September 2007

 

 

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