United States Legal Research for L.L.M. Students  

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.

From Thomson Reuters, Westlaw contains a wide range of U.S., foreign and international law primary and secondary sources. Accessible by password only. Passwords may be obtained by Law School students, staff and faculty. WestlawNext is the next generation Westlaw, with new searching algorithms. Both databases are in current use by scholars and the legal community, so both will be referenced in this Guide.

LexisNexis contains U.S., foreign and international law primary and secondary sources and is also accessible by password, available to Law School students, staff and faculty. Lexis Advance is LexisNexis' next generation platform. Both are in use, so both are referenced in this Guide.

Bloomberg Law is a relatively new legal research database combining primary law of the U.S with much of the business content that Bloomberg is known for and secondary resources from BNA, another prominent legal publisher.

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. BNA's content is now provided through BloombergLaw - see above.

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.

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.