Administrative Law Resources at the Anchorage Law Library Susan Falk December 2006 (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: us: Fax a request: NEW Toll-Free Number for Alaska callers: (888) 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 – Books! Treatises and Law Reviews can be checked out by Bar members We can mail them to you if you’re not in Anchorage

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

7 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

8 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

9 Law Journals Administrative Law Review Administrative & Regulatory Law News Administrative Judiciary News & Journal Administrative Notes

10 And… What else do you wish we had?

11 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 are being added Administrative Law databases focus your search

12 HeinOnline A free online database available in the law library Features an enormous library of journals, including over over 1100 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

13 State Resources Online Links to all state legal resources at court website: Includes links to state sites for: Alaska statutes Alaska administrative code bin/folioisa.dll/aac? bin/folioisa.dll/aac Alaska court rules

14 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

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

16 How to Search by Word AND, OR, BUT NOT Truncation ! regulat! will find regulation and regulatory Search by phrase – use quotes “administrative law judge” Use the singular form – it will automatically look for plurals worker will find worker, workers, worker’s, and workers’

17 Case Law Database Searching Once you’re in a case, can use Control-F to find specific search terms Space = OR so remember to type AND if you are looking for both terms in a case Example utility and regulat! “administrative law judge” A.L.J.

18 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

19 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