52. Looseleafs

In order to do research in administrative law, it is necessary to have access to both the materials produced by the particular agency and any materials produced by other institutions relevant to the agency. In order to make this work easier, certain specialist publishers produce sets of books which are generically called "looseleafs". They are called looseleafs because the individual pages are collected in looseleaf binders rather than sewn bindings. This allows publishers to replace the specific pages which contain outdated information with new pages as necessary. Thus new information can be incorporated into the set very quickly after it becomes public. Many of the traditional looseleaf publishers, such as the Commerce Clearing House (CCH) or the Bureau of National Affairs ( BNA) have started computer versions of their products.

53. Structure of looseleafs

These sets tend to include the full text of the legislation creating the agency, any other statutes the agency is expected to enforce, any regulations promulgated under those statutes, the case law of the agency's internal adjudication system, and the case law of the general courts which affect the agency. The subscription to a looseleaf also usually includes a subscription to that publishers unofficial reprinting of the case law which was originally distributed as part of looseleaf pages. That section of the looseleaf acts as "advance sheets" for the case reporter unit. The sets also have full indexes and other finding tools, such as tables of cases and citators.

54. Status and publishers of looseleafs

Practitioners who limit their practice to agency matters often don't need any additional works in their libraries. The looseleafs have become so standard that often citation to the unofficial reprint of the cases is satisfactory, especially since they are produced so much more quickly than the official texts. The main publishers of looseleafs are Commerce Clearing House (CCH), the Bureau of National Affairs (BNA), Aspen, and the Research Institute of America (RIA). There are many other smaller publishers, such as Juris, some of whom produce very narrowly focused sets.