Research Toolkit: Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought
Databases | Laws on the Web | Law Journals | Citing | Reference Sources
Databases (finding law and law related articles)
LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe -- Laws: statutes and cases; law reviews; newspapers.
Westlaw Campus Federal and state law, law reviews, and the legal encyclopedia American Jurisprudence and ALR. NOTE: you must accept the agreement by clicking at the bottom of the screen to enter the database.
Hein Online Fulltext database of over 200 law reviews going back to the first issue; and a growing collection of U.S. and English historic cases and statutes.Congressional Universe: U.S. Legislative information
CSA Political Science Abstracts
IBSS (International Bibliography of the Social Sciences)
Academic Search Premier and Expanded Academic Interdisciplinary databases from thousands of journals in the social sciences and humanities -- many fulltext.
Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life
MLA International Bibliography Not just literature -- good resource for culture studies as well.
Philospher's Index Good resource for political and legal theory.
Course-Specific Guides
- Spring 2008
- LJST 30: Law, Speech and the Politics of Freedom
- Previous Semesters' Course-Guides for Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought
Legal Resources on the Web
FindLaw: Internet Legal Resources Very comprehensive directory of law related resources including law reviews, case and statuatory laws. Also includes a search engine that focuses on legal resources.
Internet Legal Resource Guide
U.S. Legal Sources in the Amherst College Library
WWW Virtual Library: Law
Finding Law-Related Internet Sources
Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet
Law Journals
Law Reviews via LEXIS-NEXIS or Westlaw Campus
Hein Online Fulltext database of over 200 law reviews going back to the first issue.
WWW Virtual Library: Law Journals (Under the Browse drop down menus, select Law Journal in response to "By information type")
Citing Legal Material
Documentation Guidelines: Citing Sources Within Your Paper and Basic Legal Citation (2006 ed.)
Reference Sources
Oxford Reference: Law :Good overview of key concepts, cases.
U.S. Legal Sources in the Amherst College Library
Wex, a collaboratively built, freely available legal dictionary and encyclopedia from Cornell's Legal Information Institute.
Oxford Reference: Political and Social Science
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Useful explanations of legal and cultural theory terms.
Oxford English Dictionary Premier source on the history of English words.
Black's Law Dictionary is the most frequently used U.S. legal dictionary. KF156.B53 1999 in the Reference Area
Corpus juris secundum, an encyclopedia that uses American case law (federal and state) to provide an overview of almost all areas of law. Also in Reference at KF154 .C62
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