Legal Research Guide Series #19
Compiled by
Karen E. Reilly
Reference Intern
California Western School of Law
May 2002
SCOPE: This research guide is not all-inclusive. It does, however, present resources available at the California Western library and online regarding legal issues associated with the elderly. It is designed to provide the researcher with guidance as to the location of materials dealing with this subject. Additional research can be conducted by using the KIM system, legal periodical indices, and other finding aids. Access to Lexis, Westlaw, and the Internet is limited to students and faculty at California Western. We welcome suggestions for improvement of this and other research guides. Please consult the Reference Librarian with suggestions and further research questions. This research guide was originally compiled in May, 2002.
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Getting Started
This research guide presents just a sample of the CWSL Library’s collection of materials on women and the law. For further research, you may want to search the KIM system and LegalTrac (both available on library computers), using the following key word phrases:
- Abused Women
- Conjugal Violence
- Domestic Relations
- Dual Career Families
- Family Policy
- Family Violence
- Female Offenders
- Feminism
- Feminist Theory
- Lesbians
- Motherhood
- Mothers
- Rape
- Sex Crimes
- Sex Differences in Education
- Sex Discrimination
- Sex Role
- Sexism
- Sexual Harassment
- Surrogate Mothers
- Wife Abuse
- Women Employment
- Women Legal Status, Laws, Etc.
- Women (International Law)
- Women Judges
- Women Prisoners
- Women’s Rights
- Women’s Shelters
- Women Social Conditions
Texts and Looseleafs
Applications of Feminist Legal Theory to Women’s Lives: Sex, Violence, Work and Reproduction. Edited by D. Kelly Weisberg. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996.
Location: 3rd Floor
Call No.: K 349.A67
Arbitrating Sexual Harassment Cases. Edited by Vern E. Hauc. Washington, D.C.: Bureau of National Affairs, 1995.
Location: 4th Floor
Call No.: KF 3467.A52 A73
Avoiding and Litigating Sexual Harassment Claims. New York, N.Y.: Practising Law Institute.
Location: 4th Floor
Call No.: KF 3467.Z9 A87 1996
Domestic Violence Law. 2d ed. Edited by Nancy K. D. Leman. St. Paul, MN: West Group, 2001.
Location: 4th Floor
Call No.: KF 9320.D65 2001
Domestic Violence: The Criminal Justice Response. 2d ed. By Eve S. Buzawa, Carl G. Buzawa. Thosand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 1996.
Location: 3rd Floor
Call No.: HV 6626.B89 1996
Handling the Domestic Violence Case. New York: Practising Law Institute.
Location: 4th Floor
Call No.: KF 9322.Z9 H36
Human Rights of Women: National and International Perspectives. Edited by Rebecca J. Cook. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994.
Location: 3rd Floor
Call No.: K 644.H86
It’s a Crime: Women and Justice. 2d ed. Edited by Roslyn Muraskin. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2000.
Location: 3rd Floor
Call No.: HV 6046.I86 2000
Rights of Women: A Guide to the Most Important United Nations Treaties on Women’s Human Rights. 2d ed. New York: International Women’s Tribune Centre, 1998.
Location: 3rd Floor
Call No.: K 644.R54 1998
The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States. By Alexander Keyssar. New York: Basic Books, 2000.
Location: 3rd Floor
Call No.: JK 1846.K46 2000
Sex-Based Employment Discrimination. By Susan M. Omilian, Jean P. Kamp. Deerfield, IL: Clark Boardman Callaghan, 1990.
Location: 4th Floor
Call No.: KF 3467.O48
Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: A Legal Research Guide. By Kimberly Pruett. Buffalo, N.Y.: William S. Hein, 2001.
Location: Reference Collection
Call No.: KF 241.L33 P78 2001
Sourcebook on Violence Against Women. Edited by Claire M. Renzetti, Jeffrey l. Edleson, Raquel Kennedy Bergen. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 2001.
Location: 3rd Floor
Call No.: HV 6250.4.W65 S68 2001
Women and International Human Rights Law. Edited by Kelly D. Askin, Dorean M. Koenig. Ardsley, N.Y.: Transnational, 1999.
Location: 3rd Floor
Call No.: K 644.W64
Women, Armed Conflict, and International Law. By Judith G. Gardam and Michelle J. Jarvis. Boston: Kluwer Law International, 2001.
Location: 3rd Floor
Call No.: KZ 6471.G37 2001
Periodicals
The following journals are available in the library, and all except Violence Against Women: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal are available and searchable in full-text format on Westlaw and LEXIS/NEXIS. Legaltrac (available on library computers) may be used to search for articles in these and other law journals.
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law. Washington, D.C.: Washington College of Law, American University, 1999- .
Location: 4th Floor
Call No.: KF 477.A15 A43
Berkeley Women’s Law Journal. Berkeley: University of California, Boalt Hall School of Law, 1985- .
Location: 3rd Floor Periodicals
Cardozo Women’s Law Journal. New York: Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, 1993- .
Location: 4th Floor
Call No.: KF 477.A15 C37
Columbia Journal of Gender and Law. New York: Columbia University School of Law, 1991- .
Location: 3rd Floor
Call No.: K3.042
Hastings Women’s Law Journal. San Francisco, CA: Hastings College of Law, 1989- .
Location: 4th Floor
Call No.: KF 477.A15 H37
Southern California Review of Law and Women’s Studies. Los Angeles: Students of the Gould School of Law, University of Southern California, 1992- .
Location: 4th Floor
Call No.: KF 477.A15 S68
Violence Against Women: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 1995- .
Location: 3rd Floor
Call No.: HV 6250.4 .W65 V53
Yale Journal of Law and Feminism. New Haven, CT: [The Journal], 1989- .
Location: 3rd Floor Periodicals
Internet Resources
[Note: Internet site addresses change frequently. Accordingly, some of these sites may no longer exist at the addresses provided. To locate a site, search for the page title using an Internet search engine such as Google (http://www.google.com/).]
Center for Reproductive Law and Policy
This page features surveys of laws and United Nations treaties affecting women’s reproductive rights in the United States and overseas.
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
This site provides links to federal laws prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex or pregnancy, instructions for how to file a charge, and guidance for small businesses in complying with the law.
Hieros Gamos
This web page includes links to the texts of conventions and treaties, and well as reports from United Nations commissions and international organizations regarding women’s rights, and articles addressing the status of women in various countries.
Lambda Legal Defense Fund
This page features links to recent briefs and decisions regarding gay and lesbian rights, a state-by-state guide to state and local laws affecting those rights, and cases from each state.
Office of National Drug Control Policy
http://whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/drugfact/women
This site includes links to information about women and drug use, including drug arrests, sentencing and correctional statistics.
United States Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs
This web page includes links to the Department’s Violence Against Women Office, family violence information, research and statistics, Office of Justice Programs publications, and the text of laws and regulations, including the Violence Against Women Act.
United States Department of Labor
This page features links to laws and regulations, statistics, historical information and news releases dealing with many topics, including women in the workplace.
Women’s Human Rights Resources
http://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/Diana/
This site provides links to books and articles regarding international women’s human rights issues, and well as United Nations documents and conventions and related web sites.
Lexis-Nexis and Westlaw
These resources are available in the library only to CWSL students and faculty. Both services contain a large variety of primary (e.g., cases, statutes, regulations, etc.) and secondary (e.g., journal articles, practice guides, etc.) materials. In addition, Westlaw offers the following more specialized publications related to women and the law:
1. Andrews Employment Litigation Reporter
2. Andrews Sexual Harassment Litigation Reporter
3. Employment Discrimination Law Update
4. Journal of Gender, Race & Justice
5. Sexual Harassment: Federal Law
Finally, Westlaw offers a database of federal cases involving employment law entitled Federal Labor & Employment Cases (FLB-CS).
If you have questions about these services or how to search for particular materials, please see a Reference Librarian.
