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Major Treatises by Topic

This guide lists major legal treatises, handbooks, hornbooks and guides by topic. It also lists important current awareness and reporting services for each topic.

Multi-Volume Treatises

Ebooks and Online Resources accessible to Case Law Users Only.

Sandra M. Stevenson, Antieau on Local Government Law (2d ed., 1997-date). Online: Lexis Advance.

John Martinez et al., Local Government Law (1981-date). Online: WestlawNext.

Eugene McQuillin, Treatise of the Law of Municipal Corporations (3d ed., 1948-date).
Print: KF5305.M34 1949 (last updated 2011)

Single-Volume Treatises/Hornbooks

Ebooks and Online Resources accessible to Case Law Users Only.

David J. McCarthy, Jr. & Lorie Reynolds, Local Government Law in a Nutshell (5th ed., 2003).
Print: KF5300.Z9M3 2003eBook: West Academic.

Osborne M. Reynolds, Jr., Local Government Law (Hornbook) (5th ed., 2019).
Online: West Academic