Administrative Law Resources at the Anchorage Law Library

Susan FalkDecember 2006

sfalk@courts.state.ak.us(907) 264-0581

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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

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Contact Us

Call the Reference Desk: 907-264-0585 Email us: library@courts.state.ak.us Fax a request: 907-264-0733

NEW Toll-Free Number for Alaska callers: (888) 282-2082

Request forms available on our website: www.state.ak.us/courts/library.htm

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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?

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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

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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 2004-2005, Lubbers Administrative Law & Process in a Nutshell

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Alaska Administrative Material

Alaska Workers’ Compensation Decisions Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission

Decisions Revenue Hearing Decisions

1956-1993 Alaska Public Utilities Commission Reporter

Plus… Complete set of Alaska Administrative Code

Registers

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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

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Law Journals

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

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And…

What else do you wish we had?

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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

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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

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State Resources Online

Links to all state legal resources at court website: http://www.state.ak.us/courts

Includes links to state sites for: Alaska statutes

http://www.legis.state.ak.us/folhome.htm Alaska administrative code

http://www.legis.state.ak.us/cgi-bin/folioisa.dll/aac?

Alaska court rules http://www.state.ak.us/courts/rules.htm

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Alaska Case Law Database

http://government.westlaw.com/akcases 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

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Different Ways to Search

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

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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’

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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.

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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

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The Library is Here to Help

Call the library reference desk if you have questions: (907) 264-0585

Reference librarians can walk you through Westlaw searching or finding a website to help

We have thousands of forms available Catalog is on-line:

http://www.state.ak.us/courts/library.htm You can check out treatises for 3 days We will mail them to you if you live outside Anchorage We can sometimes email and fax documents