Legal Encyclopedias

Ideally, legal encyclopedias include the following:

• A complete and integrated statement of all applicable law
• Citations to relied-upon authority (i.e. cases, treatises and restatements)
• Analytical and subject indexes
• Frequent supplements

An encyclopedia is used as a starting point in a search for law. The researcher will find an elementary statement of the applicable law and a list of cases supporting the statement.

In the Wirtz Labor Library we have the following encyclopedias:

• Corpus Juris Secondum (CJS) 2d (West Publishing)
• American Jurisprudence (Am Jur) 2d.(Lexis Publishing)

There are differences between the two titles:

Portions of CJS are available via WESTLAW. Call 1 800 REF ATTY for assistance.
Am Jur 2d is available on LEXIS in CONLAW;AMJUR

There are currently no Legal Encyclopedias available for free on the Internet.