Legal Research for Non-Lawyers  

Lists the location of major law titles in the D'Angelo Law Library.

How to read citations for cases, statutes and law review articles.

Plaintiff, appellant, syllabus, docket number and more...a guide to legal and law library terminology.

LexisNexis Academic contains primary sources for U.S. law and some foreign and international jurisdictions and law reviews. It is available to all members of the University of Chicago community.

HeinOnline contains a wide range of primary and secondary law, including PDF files of all U.S. law reviews back to the first date of publication.

Bloomberg BNA publishes current awareness newsletters in a wide range of legal subjects, and has case and secondary source libraries in, e.g., intellectual property and employment law.

The U.S. Government Printing Office's site for primary law, such as the United States Code, the Code of Federal Regulations, the Federal Register and many congressional documents.

D'Angelo Law Reserve, D'Angelo Law Reference - XXKF156.B5322 2009
The standard work for American law abbreviations and terminology.

A freely-available legal dictionary.

Nationwide directory of lawyers and law forms, searchable by name, geographic location, etc. Includes information on areas of practice for attorneys and firms.

The D'Angelo Law Library's research guides address various legal topics and jurisdictions. The Cornell Law Library maintains a Legal Research Guide Search Engine which is helpful for locating guides to legal research on the Internet.