Journals & Databases
- Feminist Legal StudiesContains articles, essay reviews, book reviews & case-notes on aspects of law, legal theory & legal practice relevant to feminist work.
- The Journal of Legal StudiesJournal of Legal Studies (JLS) publishes interdisciplinary academic research about law and legal institutions. It emphasizes social science approaches, especially those of economics, political science, and psychology, but it also publishes the work of historians, philosophers, and others who are interested in legal theory and use social science methods.
- Legal Studies ForumCovers law and popular culture, law-related cultural studies, contemporary jurisprudence, narrative jurisprudence, legal studies pedagogy, and new perspective in the field of law.
- Oxford Journal of Legal StudiesCovers comparative & international law, EEC law, legal history, & philosophy & interdisciplinary material from the fields of economics & sociology
- Social & Legal StudiesSocial & Legal Studies is a leading international journal, publishing progressive, interdisciplinary and critical approaches to socio-legal study. The journal was born out of a commitment to feminist, anti-colonial and socialist economic perspectives to the study of law. It offers an intellectual space for theoretically informed and empirically grounded work, where diverse traditions and critical approaches within legal study meet. They particularly welcome work in new fields of socio-legal study, as well as non-western scholarship.
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
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Academic Search Complete is the leading source of peer-reviewed, full-text journals for STM research, as well as for the Social Sciences and Humanities. This scholarly collection offers unmatched coverage of information spanning a broad range of important areas of academic study, including anthropology, engineering, law, sciences and more. - Checkpoint This link opens in a new window
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Includes tax regulations and laws, court opinions, commentary, tax periodicals and legislative materials including RIA and WG&L Treatises.
To customize Checkpoint, click here to create a personal account.Once you complete the registration form, you will receive an e-mail with your Checkpoint username and password. - Gale Virtual Reference Library This link opens in a new window
Access to eReference content such as College Blue Book, Contemporary Authors v237-, Contemporary Authors New Revisions v.252-, Twayne's Authors Online and Scribner Writers Online. - Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research. - Social Science Premium Collection This link opens in a new windowThe Social Science Premium Collection provides abstracts, indexing, and full-text coverage of journal articles, books, dissertations, and more, including over 4,300 full-text titles. (From the publisher.)
Using Google Scholar for Legal Research
- Click "Case Law" before searching
- Enter the citation in the search bar.
- Click on the result that is provided.
- Click on "Case Law."
- Enter your search terms in quotation marks (e.g., “same-sex marriage”) in the search bar.
- Click on the result that is provided.
- Go to https://i-sharedom.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/account?vid=01CARLI_DOM :CARLI_DOM&lang=en§ion=overview and enter Dominican username and password to log in to the Rebecca Crown Library. Then, go to Google Scholar.
- Click “Articles,”
- Enter your search terms in quotation marks (e.g., “coerced confession”) in the search bar.
- Use the sidebar to narrow your search by date, if needed.
- Available sources labeled [PDF] or Full-Text at Dominican (only if logged in to Crown Library)
