Looking for uniform and model acts?

The archive of publications from the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws is available in HeinOnline.  This archive provides access to the full text of all Model Acts drafted, recommended or endorsed by the Conference. It includes the NCCUSL – Archive Publications, Handbook of the NCCUSL and transcripts of Proceedings of the Annual Conference Meeting, 1st-122nd Conference (1891-2013), as well as the transcripts of the discussions in the Committee of the whole of each Uniform and Model Act. Also included are the approved “successive drafts” of each Uniform and Model Act.

We also provide individual title access to this material in NUcat.

Over 980 publications, representing the complete archive from the Tax Foundation, have been added to HeinOnline, and are now available to Northwestern users.  Many of these titles, covering taxation, fiscal policy, finance, and more, have been long out of print.  To see a listing of the titles available, please click here.

The PLRC supports serious scholarly and learning endeavors.  But we also have some titles in our collection that reflect the sometimes lighter side of the law.  Check out one of these, or others nearby in the library, under the grand staircase:

• At the bar : the passions and peccadilloes of American lawyers / David Margolick ; illustrations by Elliott Banfield.
  MON K 184 .M367 1995
• A backhanded view of the law : irreverent essays on justice / Mordecai Rosenfeld.
  MON K 183 .R66 1992
• Casebook of the curious and true / Francis X. Busch.
  MON K 184 .B87 1957
• Disorder in the court : great fractured moments in courtroom history / Charles M. Sevilla.
  MON K 184 .S48 1992
• The howls of justice : comedy’s day in court / by Harry T. Shafer and Angie Papadakis and lots of other nice people who some knowingly and some unknowingly contributed to this book.
  MON K 184 .S53 1988
• The lawyer who blew up his desk : and other tales of legal madness / Joseph Matthews.
  MON K 184 .M38 1998

Check out our October list of newest library resources at:  https://www.law.northwestern.edu/library/secure/collections/newacquisitions/.

We have several resources available to our community for locating English language texts of foreign constitutions.

• HeinOnline’s World Constitutions Illustrated contains the current constitution for each of over 190 countries, the constitutional histories of several countries including the United Kingdom, France, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, India, Mexico, Italy, South Africa, and El Salvador, along with thousands of digitized books and articles related to constitutional law of other countries.
• Oxford Constitutions of the World contains the full text of 190 countries’ constitutions in English translation. “Each document provides the user with an authoritative translation of the most current version of each country’s constitution as well as many of the amending documents, decrees, and proclamations.”
• Wolters Kluwer’s International Encyclopaedia of Laws: Constitutional Law “presents a country-by-country survey of constitutional law throughout the world, and is also in the process of publishing, in one source, all of the constitutions of the world in English translations.”  This resource also contains over 40 national monographs, providing “detailed information of the country’s political system, historical background, sources of constitutional law, form of government … state form and subdivisions of the state, component states and decentralized authorities, citizenship (especially nationality and the legal position of aliens), and specific problems such as foreign relations, taxing and spending power, emergency laws, the power of the military, and the constitutional relation between Church and State.”