E-Books
- Oxford Scholarship OnlineOSO is a vast and rapidly-expanding online library spanning subjects across the humanities, social sciences, science, medicine, and law, OSO is an essential research resource for student, scholar, and academic alike, no matter what their subject specialty.
Finding Books
The Nelson Poynter Memorial Library utilizes the Library of Congress Classification system to organize books in our collection. Law books will generally fall under the call number K.
Class K – Law
- Subclass K – Law in general. Comparative and uniform law.
- Subclass KB – Religious Law in general. Comparative religious law. Jurisprudence
- Subclass KBM – Jewish Law
- Subclass KBP –Islamic Law
- Subclass KBR – History of canon law
- Subclass KBS – Canon law of Eastern churches
- Subclass KBT – Canon law of Eastern Rite Churches in Communion with the Holy See of Rome
- Subclass KBU – Law of the Roman Catholic Church.
- Subclasses – KD/KDK - United Kingdom and Ireland
- Subclass KDZ – America. North America
- Subclass KE – Canada
- Subclass KF – United Stated
- Subclass KG – Latin America – Mexico and Central America – West Indies. Caribbean area
- Subclass KH – South America
- Subclasses KJ-KKZ – Europe
- Subclasses KL-KWX – Asis and Eurasia, Africa, Pacific Area, and Antarctica
- Subclass KU/KUQ - Law of Australia and New Zealand
- Subclass KZ – Law of nations
InterLibrary Loan Requests (ILL)
- UBorrow: Request a book directly from a State University Library in FloridaThe UBorrow service allows faculty and currently enrolled USF St. Petersburg students to bypass the regular interlibrary loan system and send a direct request to another state university library in Florida.
- Request a book or article from another libraryMaterials that are not available at the USF St. Petersburg Poynter Library may be requested from other USF libraries or from libraries outside of USF. This free service is available to any professor or currently enrolled USF student; however, we are unable to guarantee a specific delivery date so please plan ahead. You will be notified by email when the book is ready for pick up at the Poynter Library or when the scanned article is ready for access.
Law Books
The Environmental Rights Revolution by Call Number: K3585.B69 2012ISBN: 0774821604Publication Date: 2011-12-06
Good Green Jobs in a Global Economy by Call Number: GE60 .H47 2012ISBN: 0262018225Publication Date: 2012-09-21
International Environmental Law by Call Number: K3585 .L68 2006ISBN: 0521687594Publication Date: 2006-10-23
Homeland Security Law Handbook by Call Number: KF4850 .H42 2003ISBN: 0865879621Publication Date: 2003-10-01
American Constitutional Law by Call Number: KF4550 .M2687 2009ISBN: 9781138227798Publication Date: 2017-07-26This classic collection of carefully selected and edited Supreme Court case excerpts and comprehensive background essays explores constitutional law and the role of the Supreme Court in its development and interpretation. Well-grounded in both theory and politics, it endeavors to heighten students' understanding of and interest in these critical areas of our governmental system. New to the 17th Edition 9 new cases (including 2 cases from the 2015-2016 term decided by 8 justices) and discussion of 30 additional new cases. New case highlights include Sebelius on Obamacare, Obergefell on same sex marriage, and 2 new cases on government surveillance. Covers the death of Justice Antonin Scalia and ensuing controversies. Updates every chapter-opening essay and end-of-chapter Selected Readings. Provides an author-written online Instructor's Manual with Test Bank, historical Supreme Court documents, noteworthy decisions and dissents, and cases from previous editions.
Labor and Employment Law by Call Number: KF3388 .T96 2004ISBN: 0324154844Publication Date: 2003-07-14
The Pursuit of Justice by ISBN: 9780195311891Publication Date: 2006-12-01With a survey of the thirty Supreme Court cases that, in the opinion of U.S. Supreme Court justices and leading civics educators and legal historians, are the most important for American citizens to understand, The Pursuit of Justice is the perfect companion for those wishing to learn moreabout American civics and government. The cases range across three centuries of American history, including such landmarks as Marbury v. Madison (1803), which established the principle of judicial review; Scott v. Sandford (1857), which inflamed the slavery argument in the United States and led tothe Civil War; Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), which memorialized the concept of separate but equal; and Brown v. Board of Education (1954), which overturned Plessy. Dealing with issues of particular concern to students, such as voting, school prayer, search and seizure, and affirmative action, and broaddemocratic concepts such as separation of powers, federalism, and separation of church and state, the book covers all the major cases specified in the national and state civics and American history standards.For each case, there is an introductory essay providing historical background and legal commentary as well as excerpts from the decision(s); related documents such as briefs or evidence, with headnotes and/or marginal commentary, some possibly in facsimile; and features or sidebars on principalplayers in the decisions, whether attorneys, plaintiffs, defendants, or justices. An introductory essay defines the criteria for selecting the cases and setting them in the context of American history and government, and a concluding essay suggests the role that the Court will play in thefuture.
