Criminal Law: Multivolume Titles

BNA, now a subsidiary of Bloomberg, is essentially a national legal news agency. For many years it has published a wide range of current awareness resources on a variety of topics, most notably their Reporters. The Criminal Law Reporter is a collection of cases drawn from around the country and selected as especially noteworthy at the time of initial publication. Useful as an historical reference.

Criminal litigation involves voluminous forms and filings, and Bailey and Fishman's serial aims to be the most comprehensive collection of state and federal forms available. As a practical matter, state-specific formbooks tend to be more useful for individual attorneys simply because they aren't likely to need material for more than the one jurisdiction, but those national firms with Criminal Defense divisions in multiple states all subscribe to Bailey and Fishman. Available on Westlaw.

This title has the distinction of being the premier treatise on Ohio Criminal Law available, bar none. Part of the Anderson's Ohio series, published by LexisNexis. Covers both substantive law and procedure, and available in our Ohio Collection on the 4th Floor, as well as Lexis+.

This treatise is a comprehensive arraignment-to-sentencing guide to prosecuting and defending white collar crimes. This is, of course, only one small subject within Criminal Law, but Androphy's work is indicative of the best kinds of Criminal Law serials: there is very little abstraction here, and the primary focus is on assisting both sides of active litigation. This style is far more prevalent in criminal treatises than civil ones, simply because litigation is such a constant and fundamental part of the practice. Available on Westlaw.

This multi-volume treatise is a primary contender for the most comprehensive and authoritative secondary source discussion of the Model Penal Code and its derivative statutes and cases available on the market. Prof. LaFave is likely the most highly-regarded Criminal Law scholar in America, and his treatise has been a go-to source for decades. Organized as a section-for-section analysis of the MPC, and regularly updated via pocket part. Available electronically on Westlaw.

The foundational type of law title is the "scholarly treatise": often starting (or rather, having started a century ago or more) as a law school textbook, the authoring professor and his or her colleagues expand the work based on new developments, cases, or areas of law that become relevant, but the entire work is still undergirded by the professor's original theories and explanations, often long after their deaths: Prof. Wharton wrote the first edition of this treatise and is long since deceased and the work is being continued by a team of new editors led by Prof. Torcia, but it still bears his name as branding of a sort, to let readers know the work's approach compared to other scholarly treatises on the subject. In any event, this title is still updated via pocket part and is available on Westlaw.