Research Guides: *Legal Studies: Legal Resources

Legal Research Databases

Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Choose Cases or Law Reviews to search. For cases, Shepard's Citations citator retrieves other cases that cite it, indicating whether the law still stands.
HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
Law reviews, U.S. and international law, treaties, Supreme Court documents, and other collections related to the law. hein online
Includes:
Law Journal Library (over 2300 law, political science, criminology, and other law related journals all back to inception)
Indigenous Peoples of the Americas: History, Culture & Law (American Indian Law Collection)
World Constitutions (the constitutions of every single county plus much more)
Legal Classics
U.S. Presidential Library
Religion & the Law
Women & the Law
Federal Register/CFR
U.S. Statutes at Large
U.S. Federal Legislative History Library
United States Code
U.S. Presidential Library
U.S. Attorney General and Department of Justice Collection
Treaties and Agreements
History of International Law
Foreign Relations of the United States
U.S. Supreme Court Library
Brennan Center for Justice Publications from NYU School of Law

Black's Law Dictionary
Location: Reference KF156 .B53 2014
Published: 2014
Authoritative definitions of legal terms.
Nutshell Series
These print books give overviews of selected legal topics. They are not scholarly works in themselves but can be a useful starting place.

National Survey of State Laws This link opens in a new window
Comparisons of state laws by topic.

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