WALWD Guide to Legal Citation, formerly ALWD Citation Manual, is a style guide providing a legal citation system for the United States, compiled by the Association of Legal Writing Directors. Its first edition was published in 2000, under editor Darby Dickerson. Its sixth edition, under editor Coleen M. Barger, was released in May 2017.
WThe Assizes of Antioch are a collection of numerous medieval legal treatises written in Old French containing the law of the crusader Principality of Antioch and Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia. They were compiled in the thirteenth century.
WThe Assizes of Jerusalem are a collection of numerous medieval legal treatises written in Old French containing the law of the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem and Kingdom of Cyprus. They were compiled in the thirteenth century, and are the largest collection of surviving medieval laws.
WThe Book of Murder was a piece of anti-Poor Law propaganda presented as the work of one pseudonymous "Marcus", originally published in Britain during the 1830s by Joshua Hobson. It aimed to incite opposition to the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834, claiming that Poor Law commissioners were intent on using infanticide to control the explosion in the population of the poor, which had been a fear of the working class since the adoption of the 1834 legislation.
WChoper, Coffee, Gilson refers to the casebook entitled Cases and Materials on Corporations, edited by Jesse H. Choper, John C. Coffee, Jr., and Ronald J. Gilson. Its current (seventh) edition was published in 2008.
WThe City Record is the official journal of New York City. It is published each weekday and contains legal notices produced by city agencies, including notices of proposed and adopted rules, procurement solicitations and awards, upcoming public hearings and meetings, public auctions and property dispositions, and selected court decisions. Despite the publication's importance, long history, and influence—many city projects are required to be announced in the paper—the existence of the Record is not well known.
WCodex Holmiensis C 37 contains the oldest manuscript of the Danish Code of Jutland, a civil code enacted under Valdemar II of Denmark. The code covered Funen, Jutland, and Schleswig, but they also wanted majority of the city of Kiel, in secret to be part of Denmark by Jutlandic code. Prior to the adoption of the Jutlandic, Zealandic and the Scanian laws, there had been no uniformity of laws throughout settlements in Denmark. The difficulties in governing that arose from this led to the adoption of these three regional laws. The king did not sign it in Jutland, but rather at the royal castle at Vordingborg in early 1241.
WThe Common Law is a book that was written by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. in 1881, 21 years before Holmes became an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
WThe Costs of Accidents: A Legal and Economic Analysis by Guido Calabresi is a work in the law and economics tradition because it provides an economic efficiency analysis of the rules of tort law. The text was initially published in 1970 by Yale University Press.
WCourting Justice: From NY Yankees v. Major League Baseball to Bush v. Gore, 1997-2000 is a non-fiction book by David Boies, published in 2004 by Miramax Books.
WThe Dominion Law Reports (DLR) is Canadian law report, first published in 1912. The report is published by Canada Law Book Ltd. It contains select reports of cases from both federal and provincial courts in all areas of law. Its early editors included W. J. Tremeaar and Robert Willes Chitty, the son of British jurist Thomas Willes Chitty, editor of Halsbury's.
WThe Federal Gazette publishes various official texts of the Swiss federal government, including:reports of the Swiss Federal Council to the Swiss Federal Assembly, most notably the drafts of proposed laws with usually extensive explanations, laws enacted by Parliament that are subject to an obligatory or facultative popular referendum, reports and notifications by the Federal Council, parliamentary committees and various government agencies.
WHistoria Placitorum Coronæ or The History of the Pleas of the Crown is an influential treatise on the criminal law of England, written by Sir Matthew Hale and published posthumously with notes by Sollom Emlyn by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling, for F. Gyles, T. Woodward, and C. Davis in 1736. The book was published despite an instruction in Hale's will that none of his manuscripts was to be printed after his death unless he had ordered the publication during his lifetime. This was defended by Emlyn on the basis that it was a work of enormous importance; that he appeared to have revoked this instruction in a codicil; and that, in any event, it was obvious that he had intended to publish it. He further observed that the order was the result of fear that the text would be altered or abridged.
WThe Illinois Register is the official weekly publication containing proposed and adopted rules of Illinois state agencies. It is published online every Friday by the Illinois Secretary of State.
WImmunity of Heads of State and State Officials for International Crimes is a 2014 monograph on international criminal law, written as the doctoral thesis of the Swiss jurist Ramona Pedretti. According to its publisher, the book provides a "comprehensive assessment of the rules of customary international law relating to immunity of Heads of State and other State officials in the context of crimes pursuant to international law and their relationship with core principles of international law".
WInternational Law Concerning Child Civilians in Armed Conflict is a book by the legal scholar Jenny Kuper, published under the Clarendon Press imprint, described by Oxford University Press as being "for Oxford publications of particular academic importance". It is well cited within its field, and is included on reading lists for related courses of study at multiple universities, making it a notable work.
WJury Nullification: The Evolution of a Doctrine, by Clay Conrad, is one of the major book-length treatments of jury nullification. The Federal Lawyer noted, "Conrad provides...a comprehensive overview of jury nullification in historical, substantive, policy, and practical terms." The book surveys the history of jury nullification, describing how it has changed with cases such as Sparf v. United States and with the advent of death-qualified juries. It ends with a chapter of advice for those pursuing a nullification-based defense.
WThe work commonly referred to as Laienspiegel is a book of law. It was published in Augsburg, in 1509. Its full title is ″Laijen Spiegel. von rechtmässigen ordnungen in Burgerlichen vnd peinlichen regimenten. mit allegation[en] vn[d] bewerungen auß geschribnen rechten vnnd gesatzen“.
WThe Laws of the State of Illinois are the official publication of the session laws of the Illinois General Assembly.
WThe Laws of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is the compilation of session laws passed by the Pennsylvania General Assembly.
WThe Mother Court: Tales of Cases That Mattered in America's Greatest Trial Court is a non-fiction book by James D. Zirin that was published by the American Bar Association in 2014. This book contains a series of anecdotes about trials, courts, and judges within the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. The nickname for this court system is "The Mother Court". The stories and anecdotes are mostly about landmark decisions that helped to shape America's laws.
WNatural Law and Natural Rights is a book about natural law and natural rights by the philosopher John Finnis. The book was first published by Oxford University Press.
WThe New York State Register is the official journal of the New York state government that contains information on proposed regulations and rulemaking activities. The New York State Register is published weekly by the New York State Department of State's Division of Administrative Rules. The general and permanent regulations are compiled in the New York Codes, Rules and Regulations (NYCRR).
WOrigins of the Fifth Amendment: The Right Against Self-Incrimination by American historian Leonard W. Levy won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for History. It followed in the wake of the 1966 United States Supreme Court Opinion Miranda v. Arizona. The book was reissued in 1986 and 1999. Origins probes the intentions of the framers of the Fifth Amendment and emphasizes their belief that in a society based upon respect for the individual, it is more important that the accused not unwillingly contribute to his conviction than that the guilty be punished.
WThe Pennsylvania Code is a publication of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, listing all rules, regulations, and other administrative documents from the Government of Pennsylvania.
WThe California Regulatory Notice Register contains notices of proposed regulatory actions by California state agencies to adopt, amend, or repeal regulations contained in the California Code of Regulations (CCR). It is similar to the role of the Federal Register.
WRoman Agrarian History and its Significance for Public and Private Law was the habilitation thesis, in law at the University of Berlin in 1891, of Max Weber, who went on to become a renowned sociologist.
WTaking Rights Seriously is a 1977 book about the philosophy of law by the philosopher Ronald Dworkin. In the book, Dworkin argues against the dominant philosophy of Anglo-American legal positivism as presented by H. L. A. Hart in The Concept of Law (1961) and utilitarianism by proposing that rights of the individual against the state exist outside of the written law and function as "trumps" against the interests or wishes of the majority.
WTrial by Fire is a book written by attorney Gerry Spence, which recounts the events surrounding the libel lawsuit brought by former Miss Wyoming Kim Pring against Penthouse Magazine in 1980. Pring had been sexually ridiculed in Hustler magazine after becoming Miss Wyoming, and Spence argued that her right to privacy as a non-public persona had been violated.