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.
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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)
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 sections 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 which provide a foundation in issues of civil liberties and civil rights include the following:
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 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
At War with Civil Rights and Civil Liberties / Thomas E. Baker. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2006. KF4749 .A89 2006
Beyond the Law: the Bush Administration's Unlawful Responses in the "War" on Terror / Jordan J. Paust. Cambridge University Press, c2007. KF9625 .P38 2007
The Bill of Rights / Tom Head, ed. Greenhaven Press, c2004. KF4744 2004
The Bill of Rights in Modern America / David J. Bodenhamer and James W. Ely, Jr., eds. Indiana University Press, c2008. KF4550 .A2 B49 2008
Bill of Wrongs: the Executive Branch's Assault on America's fundamental Rights / Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose. Random House, c2007. JC599 .U5 I85 2007
Bush, the Detainees, and the Constitution: the Battle Over Presidential Power in the War on Terror / Howard Ball. University Press of Kansas, c2007. KF5060 .B35 2007
Civil Liberties in America: a Reference Handbook / Samuel Walker. ABC-CLIO, c2004. KF4749 .W35 2004
Civil Liberties vs. National Security in a Post-9/11 World / M. Katherine B. Darmer, Robert M. Baird, and Stuart E. Rosenbaum, eds. Prometheus Books, c2004. KF5060 .C48 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 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
Constitutional Debate in Action: Civil Rights & Liberties / H.L. Pohlman. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2004. KF4748 .P64 2004
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
Covering: the Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights / Kenji Yoshino. Random House, c2006. KF373 .A3 Y67 2006
Cultural Autonomy, Minority Rights, and Globalization / Steven C. Roach. Ashgate, c2005. JC312 .R63 2005
Defendant Rights: a Reference Handbook / Hamid R. Kusha. ABC-CLIO, c2004. KF9625 .Z9 K87 2004 and Electronic
Defense, Liberty, and the Constitution: Exploring the Critical National Security Issues of Our Time / Ronald J. Sievert. W.S. Hein, c2005. KF4850 .S54 2005
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. Reserve 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. Reference KF4747.5 .E53 2006
The Encyclopedia of Civil Liberties in America / David Schultz and John R. Vile, eds. Sharpe Reference, c2005. Reference 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
Federal Civil Rights Acts / Rodney A. Smolla. Clark Boardman Callaghan, c1994- . KF4749 .A745 1994
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
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 Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring about Social Change? / Gerald N. Rosenberg. University of Chicago Press, c2008. KF8700 .R66 2008
How Patriotic is the Patriot Act?: Freedom Versus Security in the Age of Terrorism / Amitai Etzioni. Routledge, c2004. KF4850 .E899 2004
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
Is There a Right to Remain Silent? : Coercive Interrogation and the Fifth Amendment after 9/11 / Alan M. Dershowitz. Oxford University Press, c2008. KF9668 .D47 2008
A Jailhouse Lawyer's Manual / Brooke Sealy, et al., eds. Columbia Human Rights Law Review, c2005. KFN6181.5 .J35 2005
Justice for the Past / Stephen Kershnar. State University of New York Press, c2004. JC599 .U5 K447 2004
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
Moral Controversies in American Politics / Raymond Tatalovich and Byron W. Daynes, eds. M.E. Sharpe, c2005. KF450 .P8 M67 2005 and Electronic
More Secure, Less Free?: Antiterrorism Policy & Civil Liberties after September 11 / Mark Sidel. University of Michigan Press, c2004. HV6432 .S547 2004
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
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
The Politics of Terror: the U.S. Response to 9/11 / William Crotty, ed. Northeastern University Press, c2004. E902 .P65 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
Race, Racism, and American Law / Derrick Bell. Aspen Publishers, c2004. KF4757 .B35 2004
Regulatory Rights: Supreme Court Activism, the Public Interest, and the Making of Constitutional Law / Larry Yackle. University of Chicago Press, c2007. KF4552 .Y33 2007
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
Scapegoats of September 11th: Hate Crimes & State Crimes in the War on Terror / Michael Welch. Rutgers University Press, c2006. HV6431 .W444 2006
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
Section 1983 Litigation / Martin A. Schwartz. Aspen Publications, c2003- . KF1325 .C58 S364
Section 1983 Litigation / Martin A. Schwartz and John E. Kirklin. Wiley Law Publications, c1997- . KF1325 .C58 S36 1997
Section 1983 Litigation in State Courts / Steven H. Steinglass. C. Boardman, c1988- . KF1325 .C58 S74
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
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
The Supreme Court and Individual Rights / David G. Savage. CQ Press, c2004. KF4748 .W53 2004
Terrorism and the Constitution: the Post-9/11 Cases / H.L. Pohlman. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2008. KF9430 .A53 P64 2008
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 Civil Liberties: How Bush and Ashcroft Have Dismantled the Bill of Rights / Elaine Cassel. Lawrence Hill Books, c2004. KF4749 .C33 2004
Why Marriage Matters: America, Equality, and Gay People's Right to Marry / Evan Wolfson. Simon & Schuster, c2004. HQ1034 .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
Study Aids
- Civil Rights Law and Practice KF4749 .L495 2004
- Constitutional law--Individual Rights : Examples and Explanations KF4749 .I34 2004
- Disability Civil Rights Law and Policy KF480 .D57 2004
- Federal Disability Law in a Nutshell KF480.Z9 T83 2004
- Understanding Disability Law KF480.Z9 W43 2007
Searching SCHOLAR and OhioLINK
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, such as Assembly, Right of; Due Process of Law; Equality before the law; Freedom of speech; and Freedom of the press.
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
George Mason University Civil Rights Law Journal. George Mason University School of Law. K7 .E563 & Electronic
Harvard Civil Rights - Civil Liberties Law Review. Harvard Law School. K8 .A68 & Electronic
IR & R News Report. American Bar Association, Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities. KF4742 .I73 (current 2 years)
Michigan Journal of Race & Law. University of Michigan Law School. K13 .I34 & Electronic
New York Law School Journal of Human Rights. The School. K14 .E89 & Electronic
The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Minority Issues. St. Mary's University School of Law. K23 .C325 & Electronic
Southern California Review of Law and Social Justice. University of Southern California, Gould School of Law. Electronic
Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. Stanford University Law School. K23 .T2166 & Electronic
Texas Journal on Civil Liberties and Civil Rights. University of Texas School of Law. Electronic
William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal: a Student Publication of the Marshall-Wythe School of Law. The School. K27 .I44 & Electronic
Yale Journal of Law and Liberation. Yale Law School. K29 .A343 & Electronic
Aggregate Databases and Other Web Resources
American Civil Liberties Union
American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio
beSpacific: Civil Liberties Archives
Cato Institute: Law and Civil Liberties
Includes information on 16 subtopics, including Civil Liberties, Constitutional Studies, Police Tactics and Misconduct, Civil Rights, and Gun Control.
Civil Liberties Defense Center
Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute: Law about: Civil Rights
Duke Law School: Program in Public Law: Civil Liberties Online
FedLaw: Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Equal Opportunity, and Discrimination
FindLaw: Research the Law: Practice Area Resources: Civil Rights
GPO Access: Core Documents of U.S. Democracy
Internet Law Library: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
"A
private, nonprofit, nonpartisan legal organization formed at the request of President John F. Kennedy in 1963."
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.
Library of Congress Digital Reference Section: Web Guides: Historic American Documents: The American Revolution and the New Nation: Bill of Rights
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
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration: Online Exhibits: The Charters of Freedom
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.
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September 2008