Resources by Subject: Law

Finding Legal Information

 
General Social Sciences Databases
           Expanded Academic Index - UW restricted
Provides indexing and abstracting for approximately 1,500 scholarly and general interest periodicals, covering all major fields of study in the humanities, social sciences, and science and technology.
Research Library Complete - UW restricted
Indexing and full text for a basic collection of general-interest, humanities, social science and science periodicals and newspapers; 1986 to present. Divided into Newspapers and Periodicals sections.
JSTOR search - UW restricted
A subject searchable index of journals online with JSTOR. Retrieves full-text backfiles of scholarly journals, some of which date back to the 1800's. As a general rule, JSTOR does not contain articles published within the last FIVE years, but it is an excellent source for older articles.
Project Muse search - UW restricted
A subject searchable index of the Johns Hopkins University Press journals online with Project Muse. Retrieves more than 5000 full-text articles.
  Social Sciences Citation Index - UW restricted
Part of the Web of Science databases, which index scholarly journals in the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities.
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Law Databases
  LexisNexis Academic - UW restricted
Extensive array of full-text news (newspapers, wire services, transcripts and newsletters), law reviews and reference resources. Also see LexisNexis Congressional and LexisNexis Statistical Universe.
LegalTrac - UW restricted
Covers over 800 major English language legal journals and seven legal newspapers from 1980 forward; updated monthly.
CQ Researcher - UW restricted
In-depth reports on current political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy.
CQ.com - UW restricted
Legislative tracking and news service. Unique content includes CQ BillWatch (essay-style analysis back to 1995), CQ Schedules, and CQ Archives. Access not available for every listed resource
Hein Online - UW restricted
Searchable, full text legal journals and law reviews.
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Cases
  The Curiae Project
The Curiae Project provides Supreme Court records and briefs and other relevant materials free of charge on the Internet.
  Oyez
Multimedia Supreme Court archive. Provides access to more than 2000 hours of Supreme Court audio.
  FindLaw: Cases and Codes
Cases from the US Supreme Court and US Courts of Appeals, as well as state and federal laws.
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Maintainer of this guide: Alyssa Deutschler, Policy Studies Librarian