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Here, you will find a list of websites that provide legal information and materials (including laws, bills, court opinions, and related documents) and/or links to legal material. Most of these sites are freely available to all users with Internet access. Some sites are UW Restricted, that is, available to University of Washington faculty, students, and staff and visitors to UW Libraries.More
Updated July 7, 2008.
Prepared by Nancy McMurrer.
This guide provides introductory sources, research techniques, and websites on sports law.
Note: Hein Online, LegalTrac, and LexisNexis Academic are commercial databases to which the Library subscribes. They are available to University of Washington faculty, students and staff and to visitors to University of Washington libraries. UW faculty, students, and staff may use these resources from home by first using the Off-Campus Access link to login with their UW NetIDs.
KeyCite is available to individual users with passwords and to users visiting the Gallagher Law Library.
To find overviews of legal issues in sports law consult a legal encyclopedia or nutshell:
To find law review articles:
For article-like annotations based on specific fact situations, use American Law Reports (ALR) KF132.A55 at Reference Area or American Law Reports Federal (ALR Fed) KF105.A542 at Reference Area. ALR annotations discuss the issues and provide an overview of state cases, with citations. ALR Federal is similar, but its articles are about federal law issues. There is a single subject index for both titles.
To find books in the Gallagher Law Library, search the online catalog by keyword or by subject, such as:
Tip: to exclude Congressional committee hearings:
Books and other material located in the Classified Stacks and the Compact Stacks may be checked out. Items in the Reference Area are to be used in the Library.
With a Citation
If you have already found citations to state or federal cases or laws, use LexisNexis Academic to retrieve
the documents. The Gallagher Law Library also has print copies of all federal and state legal sources and related material from some foreign countries and international organizations.
The Gallagher guide on free Internet Legal Resources links to reliable sources for state and federal law on the Internet.
The reference librarians have prepared dozens of legal research guides. Use the keyword/title list or the drop-list under the "Conduct Legal Research" heading on the Law Library’s homepage.
Without a Citation
Use one or more of the following sources to locate more information about a case or law for which you do not have a citation:
Use the West Digest system to locate additional cases. See the Gallagher guide on Reporters & Digests for more information.
Use a “citator,” a service that tracks all subsequent references to your source.
Use a citator to make sure your case or statute is still “good.” Shepard’s and KeyCite are designed to help you determine what has happened to your law or case after it was issued.
If you are using a state or federal code (laws or regulations) in print, be sure to check for recent changes or new legislation or regulations.
Marquette University Law School’s National Sports Law Institute has a page of links.
The WEX Sports Law webpage, hosted at Cornell Law School’s Legal Information Institute, is designed as a public-access legal dictionary and encyclopedia and it links to some primary law.
Findlaw, a website for the public and legal professionals, has a webpage for Entertainment and Sports Law. This website may not be very helpful for specific sports law questions, but it also covers topics like torts and contracts.
The Sports Law Blog has links and posts of interest. Look at the table of contents on the left side under Sports Law Resources. The blog comments on legal issues involved in current sports news. Note under the Sports Law heading a link to Florida Coastal Law School’s database of college coaches’ contracts.
The Penn State Institute for Sports Law, Policy and Research, has lists of resources and links to some full-text resources.
International sports law is covered at GlobaLex, an electronic legal publication dedicated to international and foreign law research. It is published by the Hauser Global Law School Program at NYU School of Law. Check out an excellent research guide (from 2006).
The Court of Arbitration for Sport handles commercial (for example, enforcement of an athlete’s employment contract) and disciplinary (for example, doping allegations) disputes involving sport.
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