Secondary

Sources

ENCYCLOPEDIAS

AMERICAN LAW REPORTS

TREATISES & PRACTICE MATERIALS

LEGAL JOURNALS & NEWSPAPERS

P4P

Would You Rather?

Encyclopedias

National coverage:

American Jurisprudence

2d [Am. Jur. 2d]

Corpus Juris 2d [C.J.S.]

State coverage:

New York Jurisprudence 2d

Witkin’s Summary of California Law

First Pitch: Index

Term?

Baseball

Term:

Baseball

Topic & Section:

Enter § 76

Topic & Section: Enter § 76 Table of Abbreviations

Enter = Entertainment and Sports Law

Entertainment and Sports

Law § 76

Always check

the

pocket part!

A pocket part may be

labeled a “cumulative

supplement.”

It will be located in the

back of the volume

partially in a “pocket.”

If a pocket part becomes

too large it may be

replaced by a free

standing cumulative

supplement.

Useful encyclopedia

features:

Table of Contents

Useful encyclopedia

features:

Table of Contents

Correlation Table

Useful encyclopedia

features: Table of Contents

Correlation Table

Volume Index

Online Availability: Lexis

Am. Jur. 2d

States: Cal., Fla., Ill., Mich., N.Y.,

Ohio, Pa., Tenn., Tex.,

Va./W.Va.

Westlaw

Am. Jur. 2d

C.J.S.

States: Cal., Fla., Ind., Md.,

Ohio, Pa., Tex.

American Law Reports

Citations to Other Sources

Annotation Index

Table of

Jurisdictions

Represented

Pocket Part!

Online Availability

Treatises

American Law of Torts

(Speiser et al.)

Harper, James, &

Gray on Torts Fundamentals of

Sports LawEssentials of Sports Law

Index

Table of Contents

Table of Cases

Table of Statutes

Pocket Part

Online Availability

Practice Materials

Massachusetts Practice

Legal Journals &

Newspapers

How to find?

Print Index Digital Index Digital Resource• Current Law Index

• Index to Legal Periodicals & Books

• LegalTrac

• Index to Legal Periodicals & Books

• HeinOnline

• Lexis

• Westlaw

• JSTOR, …

Law Journal Finder

Test the theory in the

digital environment!

Using LexisAdvance, locate a relevant section of

an encyclopedia specifically focusing on a personal injury caused by being struck by a

baseball at a game.

Does it provide you with potentially helpful

primary citations to continue your research?

Next -

Using a digital source for legal journals (like

HeinOnline), locate a recent relevant legal journal

or news article referencing a personal injury to a spectator caused by being struck by a baseball

at a game.

Identify the potentially helpful primary citations it

provides continue your research.

Next -

Using WestlawNext for the American Law Reports,

locate a relevant annotation discussing the

liability to a spectator for personal injuries caused by being struck by a baseball at a game.

Identify the potentially helpful primary citations it

provides continue your research.

Next -

Using Bloomberg Law, locate a relevant section of

a treatise or book discussing the liability to a

spectator for personal injuries caused by being struck by a baseball at a game.

Identify the potentially helpful primary citations it

provides continue your research.

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