1. Florida State University College of Law Research Center Researching Constitutions: Comparative Constitutional Law Robin R. Gault Associate Director October 2008

2. Florida State University College of Law Research Center The idea of a constitution. What is it? Why is it? Why compare? U.S. Constitution as model for others.

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4. Researching the Constitution Congressional Research Service Annotated Constitution: http://www.law.cornell.edu/anncon/ PDF of print version from GPO: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/constitution/index.html Annotated Constitutions in print and online: U.S. Code Annotated (KF 62 W4, also in Westlaw) and U.S. Code Service (KF 62 1972 L38, also in Lexis.) http://www.law.cornell.edu/anncon/ http://www.gpoaccess.gov/constitution/index.html

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6. Court Decisions

7. Florida State University College of Law Research Center The U.S. Supreme Court Supreme Court Official Page: http://www.supremecourtus.gov/ Cornell LII Supreme Court Collection: http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/index.html

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9. Researching Foreign Constitution Texts Subscription database: Oceana Publications, [Constitutions of the] Countries of the World & [Constitutions of] Dependencies and Territories: In paper at K 3157 E5 B6. Connect online through Research Center webpage: http://www.law.fsu.edu/library/lawdatabases. html

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13. Foreign Constitutions on the Web University of Richmond Constitution Finder: http://confinder.richmond.edu/

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15. Washburn Law School WashLaw: http://www.washlaw.edu/ http://www.washlaw.edu/forint/alpha/c/consti tutionallaw.html

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18. World Legal Information Institute: http://www.worldlii.org/

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20. Foreign Law in Westlaw and Lexis Lexis > Legal > Find Laws by Country or Region Lexis > Legal > Area of Law – By Topic > International Law Westlaw > Directory > International/Worldwide Materials

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23. Researching Analytical Sources Limited utility of constitutional texts. Need for background, history, analysis.

24. Florida State University College of Law Research Center Locating Treatises and Essay Collections FSU Library Catalog: Click on link on Research Center home page. Use keywords “comparative” and “constitutional” to begin search.

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27. Locating Articles Index to Legal Periodicals and Books (Full Text and Retrospective): Click link on Research Center page: http://www.law.fsu.edu/library/legalresearch. html#mostusedlegal Use keywords “comparative” and “constitutions” to start.

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31. Articles Online Note that you can link to full text of many articles from the ILP cite. You can also use the E-Journals search feature to locate specific journals online at FSU. Click link on Research Center page or go to http://www.lib.fsu.edu/find/journalshttp://www.lib.fsu.edu/find/journals

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33. Online Research Guides on Comparative Constitutional Law Georgetown Law Library: http://www.ll.georgetown.edu/guides/Compa rativeConstitutionalLaw.cfm Cleveland-Marshall Law Library: http://www.law.csuohio.edu/lawlibrary/resour ces/lawpubs/ComparativeConstitutionalLa wGuide.html

34. Florida State University College of Law Research Center A Few Recent Books Choudry, The Migration of Constitutional Ideas (Law K 3165 M54 2006) Goldsworthy, Interpreting Constitutions: A Comparative Study (Law K 3165 I584 2006) Maddex, Constitutions of the World (Law K 3157 E5 M33 2001) McHugh, Comparative Constitutional Traditions (Law K 3165 M39 2002) Venter, Constitutional Comparison (Law K 3165 V46 2000)