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Research Guides

If you are looking for background on a specific area of law, start with our Treatise Finder to locate the preeminent treatises on a topic, as well as nutshells and other sources.

Need a more comprehensive guide to a specific research topic or technique? Visit our Research Guides page for links to guides on Federal and State laws and topics, Foreign and International Law, and Legal History.

Below are guides that describe some of the basic research processes you will likely need to know for your research assistantship.

Introduction to the Bluebook The purpose of this guide is to introduce The Bluebook and basic concepts of legal citation to new law students.
Secondary Sources Research Guide This guide explains various types of secondary sources and how to use them.
Articles for Legal and Non-Legal Research This is a quick guide to scholarly article databases and indexes. It includes indexes to journals and magazines, as well as other scholarly literature.
News Research This guide details the library's print and electronic newspaper holdings and identifies major Internet sources of news articles.
Case Law Research This guide details how to read a case citation and sets out the print and online sources for finding cases.
Finding Statutes This research guide introduces basic concepts of statutory research, and provides introductory information on how to locate the statutes of U.S. federal and state jurisdictions.
Legislative History Research Guide This guide collects major sources for conducting legislative history research, including committee reports, hearings, bills, debates and more.
Statistics and Empirical Legal Studies Research Guide This guide features all three iterations of Empirical Legal Studies: form, process, and function, and highlights statistical resources and websites.