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Know Your Call Number!

   We all love a good treasure hunt.  Here's a quick guide to the collection of legal treatises you'll find at the Law Library.  Happy hunting!

                            Library of Congress Law Classifications


A-B                                                    J-K

ADA                            KF 480               Juries (Instructions)     KF 8984/9642

Administrative Law         KF 5400             Jurisprudence              KF 8700

Admiralty Law               KF 1100             L-M

Agency                        KF 1345             Labor & Employment      KF 3300

AIDS Law                     KF 3800             Legal Education             KF 261

Antitrust/Consumer Law  KF 1600             Legal Malpractice           KF 313

Appellate Practice          KF 9085             Legal Profession            KF 297

Arbitration                    KF 9085             Legal Research              KF 240

Art Law                        KF 4200             Legal Writing                KF 250

Banking Law                  KF 966               Local Government         KF 5300

Bankruptcy Law             KF 1500              Medical Malpractice      KF 2950

C-D                                                     Military Law                 KF 9220

Civil Procedure               KF 8816             Model Penal Code          KF 7210

Civil Rights                    KF 4700              N-O-P

Class Actions                 KF 8896             Oil & Gas Law              KF 1801

Commercial Paper            KF 956              Partnerships                KF 1345

Communications Law        KF 2750            Patents                      KF 3114

Conflict of Laws              KF 410              Personal Property         KF 701

Constitutional Law           KF 4500            Products Liability          KF 1296

Consumer/Antitrust Law    KF 1600            Property                     KF 560

Contracts                       KF 800             Public Utilities              KF 2075

Copyright Law                 KF 2991            R-S

Corporations                   KF 1400            Real Estate Law           KF 570

Corporations (Taxation)    KF 6400            Remedies                    KF 9010

Courts (Procedure)          KF 8700            Restatements               KF 395

Criminal Law                   KF 9201            Restitution                   KF 1244

Criminal Procedure           KF 9601            Sales                          KF 900

Damages                        KF 1246           Search & Seizure           KF 9630

E-F                                                     Secured Transactions     KF 1046

Education Law                 KF 4100           Securities Regulation      KF1070/1430

Eminent Domain                KF 5599          Sentencing Guidelines     KF 9685

Employment Discrimination  KF 3400          Sex Discrimination          KF 4700

Employment/Labor Law      KF 3300           Statutory Construction   KF 425

Energy Law                     KF 2120           T

Environmental Law            KF 3700           Taxation                      KF 6200

Estates & Trusts               KF 730            Taxation (Estates/Gifts)  KF 6300

Ethics                             KF 303            Torts                           KF 1250

Evidence                         KF 8935           Trade Regulation            KF 1600

Fair Housing                     KF 5700           Trade Secrets               KF 3197

Family Law                       KF 504            Trial Technique              KF 8900

H-I                                                      Trusts & Estates             KF 730

Health Care Law               KF 3820           U-Z

Immigration Law                KF 4800          Uniform Commercial Code   KF 879

Indian Law                       KF 8200          Uniform Laws Annotated    KF 165

Injunctions                      KF 9014           Welfare Law                    KF 3270

Insurance Law                  KF 1146          Workers Compensation       KF 3615

Intellectual Property          KF 2971           Zoning/Land Use              KF 5698

International Law              JX 3091

Submitted by Eric Taylor, Evening Reference Librarian on September 29, 2011

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