QUICK GUIDE: LEGAL RESEARCH ON THE WEB: RECOMMENDED SITES & SEARCH ENGINES
MISCELLANEOUS LEGAL RESOURCES ON THE WEB
A. Secondary Sources: Law Reviews and Journals
1. University of Texas School of Law, Tarlton Law Library, Jamail Center for Legal Research: Contents Pages from Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/tallons/content_search.html
- Tables of contents from more than 750 law reviews and other scholarly publications related to the law published in the U.S. and abroad
- Includes journals received over the past three months by the Tarlton Law Library
- Updated daily
- Search by keyword
- Simple searches, such as a single word or short phrase, produce better results
2. University of Southern California Law Library: Legal Journals
http://law.usc.edu/library/resources/journals.cfm
- Selected list of legal journals on the web; includes ABA journals and newsletters, foreign law journals and subject specific law reviews
- Links to full text and abstracts of articles
- Text and PDF
3. FindLaw For Students: Academic Law Reviews and Journals
http://stu.findlaw.com/journals
- Topical list of selected academic law reviews and journals
- Links to full text and abstracts of articles
- Text and PDF
4. Law Library of Congress: Law Reviews Online
http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/lawreviews.html
- Links to online law journals and periodicals "providing substantial amounts of legal analysis"
- Includes sites providing free access to the full text of articles and notes; sites offering only promotional information, tables of contents, or abstracts are omitted
- Text and PDF
5. Hieros Gamos: Legal and Law-Related Journals
http://www.hg.org/journals.html
- Selected legal and law-related journals on the web
- Links to full text and tables of contents
- Text and PDF
B. Secondary Sources: Legal News
1. National Law Journal
http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/index.jsp
- Links to selected full text news articles including links to related documents (i.e., court decisions, legislation, government reports, etc.)
- Text and PDF
2. Law.com
http://www.law.com/index.shtml
- Selected full text legal news articles for all fifty states and D.C.; in-depth news coverage available for twelve states
- Text format
3. University of Pittsburgh School of Law: Jurist
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/
- Established in 1996
- Legal news web site maintained by Law School faculty and students
- Links to current primary source material
- Text and PDF
4. Law Library of Congress: Global Legal Monitor
http://www.loc.gov/law/public/glm/index.html
- Online publication containing summaries of legal developments around the world
- Information derived from the Law Library of Congress' Global Legal Information Network (GLIN), official national legal publications and reliable press sources
C. Secondary Sources: Law Blogs and Legal Current Awareness Sources
1. Law Professor Blogs
- Network of web logs ("blogs")
- Provides regularly-updated permanent resources and links, and daily news and information of interest to legal scholars on a variety of legal topics
2. SCOTUSblog
- Breaking news and discussion of recent developments in US Supreme Court jurisprudence
3. Opinio Juris
- Reports, commentary, and debate on current developments and scholarship in the fields of international law and politics
4. JURIST
- Covers legal news, law school news and more
5. LAW BLOG
- Wall Street Journal's blog on law and business and the business of law
6. FindLaw Legal News
- Current legal news articles from Associated Press
- Links to important legal documents
D. Legal Citation Web sites
1. Cornell Law School:
Introduction to Basic Legal Citation (LLI 2007 edition) by Peter W. Martin
http://www.law.cornell.edu/citation
- A web-based citation primer that introduces the 18th edition of The Bluebook through "concise rule summaries that are linked to numerous examples"
- Excludes foreign and international materials
E. Legal Directories
1. martindale.com
http://www.martindale.com/xp/Martindale/home.xml
- Maintained by LexisNexis
- Provides biographical information (including type of practice, selected publications, address, phone number and web site) for attorneys in firms, corporations and government agencies
- Provides biographical information for law faculty (including courses taught and address)
- Search by area of practice and location
last updated: 8/07