General & Miscellaneous Law, State & Local U.S. Government

Exploring Initiative and Referendum Law: Selected State Research Guides

Name: Exploring Initiative and Referendum Law: Selected State Research Guides
Author: Beth Williams
ISBN: 9780789037923

by Beth Williams

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Overview

Discover resources needed to undertake a thorough review of state initiative and referendum laws

Researching ballot measures can be one of the most daunting types of legal research. Exploring Initiative and Referendum Law: Selected State Research Guides offers legal researchers an easy-to-use guide that provides thorough overviews of I&R (initiative and referendum) laws within twenty-three states. This unique resource provides state-specific guidance about both forms of I&R law, those state laws permitting I&R, and those state laws enacted as a result of the I&R process. Any legal researcher beginning a project or needing to know just where to go for the right resources will get helpful general and specific information on practical research strategies and resources.

Up to now, finding the literature to research the state-specific history of a law passed by initiative or referendum has been extremely difficult. Exploring Initiative and Referendum Law: Selected State Research Guides fills this gap by providing top researchers with brief overviews of the individual state processes while providing important primary and secondary sources, including Web sites. The guide's chapters are separated alphabetically by state for fast and easy reference. Annotated bibliographies of books, articles, and Web sites are provided, along with instructions about what documents one can expect to find on the Web, and how to use free databases.

Each chapter in Exploring Initiative and Referendum Law: Selected State Research Guides explains:
the history of I&R in the state
basics of the state's I&R process
how to further research I&R in the state
furthermiscellaneous resources about I&R in the state States included:

• Alaska
• Arizona
• Arkansas
• Colorado
• Florida
• Idaho
• Illinois
• Maine
• Massachusetts
• Michigan
• Mississippi
• Missouri
• Montana
• Nebraska
• Nevada
• North Dakota
• Ohio
• Oklahoma
• Oregon
• South Dakota
• Utah
• Washington
• Wyoming

Because of this useful volume's unique focus, Exploring Initiative and Referendum Law: Selected State Research Guides may well become an essential resource for law librarians, attorneys, law faculty, law students, and Political Science scholars.

About the Author, Beth Williams

Beth Williams, JD, MLIS, MA, is a Reference Librarian at Columbia University School of Law's Arthur W. Diamond Law Library. As a member of the Columbia Law Library reference department, she teaches legal research to first year law students every fall and participates in teaching seminars in Advanced Legal Research and International Legal Research each spring semester. She also holds an appointment as Lecturer in Information Management at Columbia University. Prior to joining the staff at Columbia, she practiced public interest law in Maine.