Administrative Law Resources at the Anchorage Law Library Susan Falk State Law Librarian December 2012 (907)

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: Toll-Free within Alaska: us: Fax a request: Request forms available on our website:

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 – Service! Reference librarians are here to help you Call, , or stop by the library Ask for help with: New subject areas Legislative history Superseded Alaska materials Anything else you’d like help with

6 Resources in the Library Things you still can’t get online – superseded Alaska materials! Statutes and regulations back to statehood and before statehood Constitutional research Legislative history, print and microforms

7 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

Anchorage Remodel We are open and will remain so throughout the remodel! Some volumes in storage, but many still on the shelf Most of the material in storage is available electronically Almost everything else can be obtained through interlibrary loan 8

9 Treatises Administrative Law Treatise, Pierce and Davis Administrative Law & Practice, Koch Administrative Law: Practice and Procedure, Modjeska Administrative Rulemaking, O’Reilly Administrative Law & Process in a Nutshell Developments in Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice , Lubbers – On HeinOnline

10 Alaska Administrative Material Alaska Workers’ Compensation Decisions Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission Decisions Revenue Hearing Decisions Alaska Public Utilities Commission Reporter Plus… Complete set of Alaska Administrative Code Registers

11 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of the Seventies Administrative Law of the Eighties Administrative Law and Government Administrative Law Text 3d Plus… Superseded editions of Administrative Law & Practice, Administrative Rulemaking, and more

12 Practice Guides Forms, forms, forms! Samples and checklists for discovery, trial practice, and appellate practice Substantive, procedural, and professional Management for law firms or solo practitioners ALR, AmJur, Words and Phrases (in storage, on Westlaw)

13 Law Journals In Storage, but available on both Hein and Westlaw: Administrative Law Review Administrative & Regulatory Law News Yale Journal on Regulation

Law Journals On both Hein and Westlaw: Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary On Hein: Regulation ABA Section of Administrative Law Reports On Westlaw: Administrative Law – Law Reviews, Texts & Bar Journals (various, combined) 14

15 And… What else do you wish we had?

16 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 Administrative Law databases focus your search

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19 HeinOnline A free online database available in the law library Features an enormous library of journals, including over over 1,700 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

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22 State Resources Online Links to all state legal resources at court website: Includes links to state sites for: Alaska Statutes Alaska Administrative Code Alaska Rules of Court

23 Alaska Case Law Database 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

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

25 Case Law Database Searching All Westlaw search techniques work here Once you’re in a case, can use Control-F to find specific search terms Example utility /p regulat! “administrative law judge” A.L.J. Call the library for pin cite assistance

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27 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

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30 The Library is Here to Help Call the library reference desk if you have questions: (907) Reference librarians can walk you through Westlaw searching or finding a website to help We have thousands of forms available Catalog is on-line: You can check out treatises for 3 days We will mail them to you if you live outside Anchorage We can sometimes and fax documents