SUBJECT HEADINGS
	Alva T. Stone Florida State University atstone@law.fsu.edu

Here is a "Year in Review" for law-related Library of Congress Subject Headings, covering the period from Oct. 29, 1997 to Oct. 21, 1998. Before acting upon any of these new or changed headings, be sure to check the authority records for scope notes, cross-references, MARC tags, and "May Sub Geog" instructions. The information was gleaned from a year's worth of Subject Heading Weekly Lists available via the Internet (http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/wls.html). Readers are reminded that there is a relatively painless way to find such "law related" additions and changes. Check out the looseleaf service, Legal L.C. Subject Headings Weekly Lists : Cumulation (AALL pub ser. no.26), which is updated quarterly by Melody Lembke.

New Headings
AFro-American women lawyers
Boards of directors (separated from the existing heading, Directors of corporations)
Conflict of laws--Construction contracts
Conflict of laws--Equitable distribution of marital property
Conflict of laws--Executors and administrators
Conflict of laws--Gifts
Conflict of laws--Unclaimed estates
Copyright--Electronic information
Copyright--Interactive multimedia
Credit cards--Forgeries
Debit card fraud
Discrimination in juvenile justice administration
Disqualification of public prosecutors
Forensic nursing
Forensic psychiatric nursing
Human rights movements
International trade agencies
Internet fraud
Juristic persons--Mergers
Law--Jewish influences
Law, Diola
Law of the sea (separated from the existing heading, Maritime law)
Lawyers on television
Legal polycentricity
Legal stories, Nigerian (English)
"Of counsel" relationships (Practice of law)
Part-time lawyers
Products liability--Latex
Promise (Law) in literature
Real estate lawyers
Seneca law
Sexual consent
Stay of proceedings (Civil procedure)
Trials (Custody of children)
Trials (Illegal arms transfers)

New "Legal System" Qualified Headings
Air travel (Jewish law)
Church finance (Canon law)
Dead bodies (Canon law)
Game laws (Islamic law)
Ignorance (Islamic law)
Land mines (International law)
Loans (Assyro-Babylonian law)
Marital property (Jewish law)
Patriarchs and patriarchate (Canon law)
Plant inspection (Jewish law)
Preventive detention (Roman law)
Self-defense (Jewish law)
Sick (Jewish law)
Support (Domestic relations law, Jewish)
Warranty (Islamic law)
Wife abuse (Jewish law)

New Subdivision Established
The following existing subject headings have had the --LAW AND LEGISLATION subdivision authorized for use with them: Agricultural subsidies ; Automobile license plates ; Brownfields ; Cash registers ; Clearinghouses (Banking) ; Dance ; Desert conservation ; Distance education ; Dwellings--Remodeling ; Electronic commerce--Taxation ; Emergency communication systems ; Fuel switching ; Geographic information systems ; Government travel ; Handicapped--Education ; Handicapped--Education (Higher) ; Hunting trophies ; Karst--Research ; Livestock--Inspection ; Magnetic resonance imaging ; Medicine, Military ; Memorials ; Migrant labor--Pensions ; New business enterprises-- Taxation ; Nuclear power plants--Accidents--Reporting ; Plant inspection ; Public spaces ; School choice ; Selfdirected individual retirement accounts ; Stored-value cards ; Teachers--Dismissal of ; Temporary help services ; University presses ; Visitors' centers.

Revised Subject Headings
Contiguous zones (Maritime law) changed to Contiguous zones (Law of the sea)
Dead animals, removal and disposal of--Law and legislation changed to Dead animal disposal--Law and legislation
Delinquent girls changed to Female juvenile delinquents
Documents in machine-readable form--Law and legislation changed to Electronic records--Law and legislation
Economic zones (Maritime law) changed to Economic zones (Law of the sea)
Game-laws changed to Game laws
Game-laws (Jewish law) changed to Game laws (Jewish law)
Insurance, Business interruption--Law and legislation changed to Business income insurance--Law and legislation
Judges--Travel regulations changed to Government travel--Law and legislation and Judges--Travel
Law, Aztec changed to Aztec law
Law, Chemehuevi changed to Chemehuevi Law
Law, Cherokee changed to Cherokee Law
Law, Cheyenne changed to Cheyenne Law
Law, Chickasaw changed to Chickasaw Law
Law, Choctaw changed to Choctaw Law
Law, Creek changed to Creek Law
Law, Dakota changed to Dakota Law
Law, Guahibo changed to Guahibo Law
Law, Inca changed to Inca Law
Law, Iroquois changed to Iroquois Law
Law, Jicarilla changed to Jicarilla Law
Law, Maya changed to Maya Law
Law, Meos changed to Law, Meo
Law, Mohave changed to Mohave Law
Law, Nahua changed to Nahua Law
Law, Navajo changed to Navajo Law
Law, Siksika changed to Siksika Law
Law, Zapotec changed to Zapotec Law
Law, Zuni changed to Zuni Law
Life-saving apparatus--Law and legislation changed to Lifesaving--Equipment and supplies--Law and legislation
Ocean bottom (Maritime law) changed to Ocean bottom--Law and legislation
Offshore structures (International law) changed to Offshore structures--Law and legislation (existing heading)
Postal service--Letter carriers--Taxation--Law and legislation changed to Letter carriers--Taxation--Law and legislation
Promotion of special events--Law and legislation changed to Special events--Marketing--Law and legislation
Public relations--Courts changed to Courts--Public relations
Public relations--Lawyers changed to Lawyers--Public relations
Refugees, Political--Employment--Law and legislation changed to Political refugees--Employment--Law and legislation
Refugees, Political--Legal status, laws, etc. changed to Political refugees--Legal status, laws, etc
Sex oriented businesses--Law and legislation changed to Sex-oriented businesses--Law and legislation
Slavery (International law) changed to Slavery--Law and legislation (existing heading)
State governments--Officials and employees--Travel regulations changed to Government travel--Law and legislation--United States--States
United States--Officials and employees--Travel regulations changed to Government travel--Law and legislation--United States
United States. Congress--Travel regulations changed to Government travel--Law and legislation--United States and Legislators--Travel--United States

Other Revisions
The scope note under the heading TRIALS has been deleted because the information it contains about the application of the heading is incomplete and therefore misleading. Detailed instructions about cataloging trials and works about trials are provided in instruction sheet H 2228. The deletion of the note from this heading should not be interpreted as representing a change in cataloging practice for trials.

Headings of the type ADMINISTRATIVE LAW (CANON LAW, ORTHODOX EASTERN) have been cancelled, and replaced by the main heading subdivided by a religious denomination, e.g. ADMINISTRATIVE LAW (CANON LAW)--ORTHODOX EASTERN CHURCH. Authority records have been established showing the pattern subdivision "--Anglican Communion, [Coptic Church, etc.]" under the following headings: Adultery (Canon law) ; Affinity (Canon law) ; Canon law ; Capacity and disability (Canon law) ; Church property (Canon law) ; Church schools (Canon law) ; Clergy (Canon law) ; Consanguinity (Canon law) ; Councils and synods (Canon law) ; Criminal law (Canon law) ; Dead bodies (Canon law) ; Divorce (Canon law) ; Evidence (Canon law) ; Impediments to marriage (Canon law) ; Inheritance and succession (Canon law) ; Marriage (Canon law) ; Monasticism and religious orders (Canon law) ; Nullity (Canon law) ; Parishes (Canon law) ; Persons (Canon law) ; Procedure (Canon law) ; Remarriage (Canon law) ; Theological seminaries (Canon law).

Subdivisions deleted from lists of free-floating subdivisions included:

H 1100, Classes persons
--Travel regulations