Salem Press

	Students should be learning about their freedoms and how laws affect them; this set gives them an excellent introduction. Recommended.
Reference for Students Reference Reviews

	Recommended. General readers and lower-division undergraduates.
Choice

	An excellent resource for researching current as well as historical topics.
Library Journal

	Written for high school and undergraduate students, this set is highly recommended for school, college, university, and public libraries.
American Reference Books Annual 2004

U.S. Laws, Acts, and Treaties

U.S. Laws, Acts, and Treaties provides the much-needed service of selecting, from literally thousands of U.S. laws, those most likely to come up in classroom discussions, offering not only a summation of the laws' provisions and significance but also ample historical background and political context. This set offers historical breadth as well as a large number of laws in each of the main subject areas, accessible through the Categorized Index, that are likely to be of interest in high school and undergraduate history and government courses-allowing a researcher studying, say, the history of environmental law or immigration law to study the most significant U.S. legislation in those areas.

Formerly published in sixteen Salem reference publications from the past decade, and supplemented by 50 new essays to complete gaps and update coverage through 2002, all essays have been updated, new data have been added, and each has been reformatted to highlight key features of each law, including citations to the U.S. Statutes at Large, the U.S. Code and public law numbers.

Other Resources
Salem Press publishes a number of titles covering American justice, criminal justice, world and U.S. government, the court system, the legal system and a compelling legal guide. To view a listing of these titles, click Law & Legal Studies. Specific titles of interest are noted below:

Criminal Justice
Clear, authoritative treatment of all aspects of criminal justice - emphasis on justice in the media.

The Bill of Rights
A comprehensive survey of all aspects of the U.S. Bill of Rights; from its origins to its role in modern American history.

U.S. Legal System
This set includes articles emphasizing basic legal concepts and offer a practical guide to how the federal and state legal systems work.

U.S. Court Cases
Fundamental issues of law and what is meant by "justice" plus presentations of the 212 most important US court cases.