LAW

(Including Public Administration Collection)

I. General Collecting Guidelines

A. General Purpose

To support undergraduate and graduate teaching and research up through the Ph.D. level, as well as individual faculty research, by the acquisition of materials for the Public Administration Collection and the general collection of the Firestone Library. A number of factors should be taken into account. Doctoral candidates in Politics are required to pass General Examinations in three of six fields, one being Public Law. Princeton has a four-year program leading to a M.P.A. - J.D. degree in cooperation with Columbia University and New York University.

Although Princeton does not support a law school, courses are routinely offered that deal with jurisprudence or specific issues of public policy involving the judicial process. Intensive teaching and research activities are conducted on law-related topics within such disciplines as sociology, anthropology, and history. The collection must also support the work of the Princeton University lawyers.

B. Subject excluded

Patent law; anti-trust materials (see Economics statement); business law, banking (see Economics statement); labor law (see Industrial Relations statement).

C. Overlap with other collections or subjects: division of responsibility

If a legal subject is strongly Economic, the selection will be the responsibility for the Economics selector.

In the areas of housing law, urban law, and zoning there is overlap with the Urban and Environmental Studies Library. An attempt is made not to duplicate on major purchases.

In the area of criminology there is overlap with Sociology, and in the area of civil rights there is overlap with Afro-American Studies.

The application of psychological theories to law and criminal justice is an area of overlap with Psychology. Psychology collects material on the social psychology of law and on the relation of law to psychology.

D. Languages collected and excluded

The emphasis is on material in English on Anglo-American law. Items in Western European languages are acquired more selectively. There is flexibility to acquire in any language in which a major law item is published. Excluded is material in the foreign languages covered by the selectors responsible for the following languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Slavic and East European, East Asian and Near Eastern.

E. Geographical limits

There are no geographical limits except as implied in B above. In purchasing American court reports and statutes, priority will be given to federal court items and then to material covering the Eastern seaboard, Washington, D.C. and California.

F. Chronological limits

Primary interest is in the 19th and 20th centuries. In certain areas, such as legal history, Roman law, and the philosophy of law, there is no restriction as to time.

G. Retrospective acquisition

Current material is of prime importance. Retrospective microform purchases will be confined to materials Princeton does not own in paper copy in good condition.

H. Types of material collected and excluded

Collected: monographs, periodicals and other serials; pamphlets, loose-leaf services; digests; court reports; citators; statutes; restatements of law; reprints or photocopies of important journal articles from journals not on Princeton's subscription list; government publications, microforms; and computer printout. Also reference works such as encyclopedias and dictionaries, indexes and abstracts, bibliographies and guides, and catalogues of major subject collections. Textbooks are collected exceedingly selectively.

Excluded: juvenile publications, dissertations, non-book materials.

I. Other factors

We shall continue to rely on the New Jersey State Library for American items that would not receive heavy use if owned by Princeton.

Because of their importance to the legal community at Princeton University, the Mellon Law Seminars assist in shaping collection development directions in Law.

II. Subjects and Collecting Levels Collecting Level Overlap

Administrative Law 4

American Indian Law 4

Biography 4

Canon Law 3

Capital Punishment 3

Censorship and the Law 4

Church and State 4

Civil Liberties 4

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Civil Procedure 2

Civil Rights 4

Comparative Law 4

Computers and the Law 3

Constitutional Law and History 4

Contract and Tort 2

Courts 4

Criminal Justice 4

Criminal Law 4

Drugs 3

Election Law 4

Environmental law 4

Evidence 3

Family Law 4

International Law and Relations 4

Judicial Process 4

Jurisprudence 4

Landlord and Tenant 3

Law and Education 4

Law as a profession 3

Law in Literature 2

Legal Ethics 4

Legal History 4

Legal process 2

Legislation 4

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Mass Media and the Law 4

Medical Jurisprudence 2

Military Law 2

Philosophy of Law 4

Products Liability 3

Real property 2

Roman Law 3

Trusts and Estates 2

Zoning 4

Rev. 1987 (Pending Faculty approval May 1996)

Rosemary Allen Little

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