Nexis Uni treatises & handbooks
- Florida
- Trials & Evidence
- Family Law
- Business Law
- Accounting & Tax Law
- Education Law
- Healthcare Law
- Intellectual Property (Copyright, Patents, Trademarks, Trade Secrets)
- Other
Treatises, Hornbooks, Casebooks, In a Nutshell, etc.
See also Florida texts.
Various published series exist providing single-volume overviews of specific areas of the law. Although the UCF Library does not have a comprehensive collection of these texts, some of them can be located through
- UCF Library Catalog This link opens in a new windowsearch for the legal topic by keyword, e.g. "torts" and the keyword "series" and limit the results to "Books/eBooks"
Annotations of Cases
- American DecisionsCall Number: UCF Main Library General Collection -- KF 133 .A66 (through 1869)ch4ck avaiability of print editions
"cases of general value and authority decided in the courts of the several states from the earliest issue of the state reports to the year 1869."
See HathiTrust for digitized copies of some volumes. - American ReportsCall Number: UCF Main Library General Collection -- KF 133 .A66 (1868-1887)ch4ck availability of print editions
"containing all decisions of general interest decided in the courts of last resort of the several states."
See HathiTrust for digitized copies of some volumes. - Notes on the American decisions : showing how each case in these reports has been applied, developed, strengthened, limited, or in any way affected by later decisions that have cited it as a precedentvolumes 1-13 on American Decisions
volumes 13-20 on American Reports - American International Law CasesCall Number: UCF Main Library General Collection -- JX 238 .A2 D4 (1783-2010)ch4ck availability of 1st through 4th series
discusses published federal and state decisions involving questions of public international law from 1783 forward.
Am Jur Trials
- American jurisprudence trials : an encyclopedic guide to the modern practices, techniques, and tactics used in preparing and trying cases, with model programs for the handling of all types of litigationCall Number: UCF Main Library General Collection -- KF 8915.A74ch4ck availability
"shares the techniques and strategies that spelled success in the actual cases of more than 300 prominent trial attorneys, judges and other legal experts. Details successful techniques point-by-point in its hundreds of informative model trial articles that cover the spectrum of personal injury, business, and criminal litigation. Provides step-by-step guidance through all the phases of trial -- from initial client interview, discovery, pleadings, motions and trial itself, to post-trial motions and appeals."
Features
-Checklists
- Model pleading, discovery, and motion forms
- Sample opening statements and final arguments
- Sample litigation aids, photos, maps, diagrams, charts, tables, graphs, and more