Articles & Indexes

18th and 19th Century newspapers.

The leading English-language legal publication in its field, Arab Law Quarterly covers all aspects of Arab laws, both Shari'a and secular. It provides authoritative articles on the laws and legal developments throughout the twenty countries of the Arab world, notes on recent legislation and case law, guidelines on future changes, and reviews of the latest literature in the field.

Note: "Back files available through HeinOnline"

The Asia-Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law is the world's only law journal offering scholars a forum in which to present comparative, international and national research dealing specifically with issues of law and human rights in the Asia-Pacific region.

A quarterly peer-reviewed publication of the Indigenous Law Centre, a research centre affiliated with the Law Faculty of the University of New South Wales.

The Berkeley Electronic Press (BEPress) was founded as an electronic alternative to traditional paper academic journals. They publish journals and working papers in law, political science, current affairs, economics, business, marketing, science, technology, and medicine. This site also has a number of author tools, including LawKit and ExpressO, which help in the journal submission process.

Runs from 1849 with currency lag.

The Chronicle is a great source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators. It features the complete contents of the latest issue; daily news and advice columns; thousands of current job listings; articles published since September 1989; discussion forums; and career-building tools such as an online CV's, salary databases, and more.

Citizenship Studies publishes internationally recognised scholarly work on contemporary issues in citizenship, human rights and democratic processes from an interdisciplinary perspective covering the fields of politics, sociology, history and cultural studies. It seeks to lead an international debate on the academic analysis of citizenship, and also aims to cross the division between internal and academic and external public debate.

"Web site of the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law, is a national law and policy center, including the Poverty law library, a collection of case files, articles from the Clearinghouse review, and research links"

Very current weekly listing of new academic law journal articles in PDF, Word and HTML formats. The HTML format has links to the full-text articles in LexisNexis and Westlaw. (Users must have passwords to access full text.) CILP entries are about six weeks more current than the listings in other legal periodicals indexes. To set up a customized SmartCILP email account, tailored to your subject interests and/or specific journals, see the SmartCILP instructions at the bottom of the CILP page.

From the National Drug Court Institute.

Runs from 1690-1876.

The European Journal of International Law is firmly established as one of the world's leading journals in its field. With its distinctive combination of theoretical and practical approaches to the issues of international law, the journal offers readers a unique opportunity to stay in touch with the latest developments in this rapidly evolving area. Each issue of the EJIL provides a forum for the exploration of the conceptual and theoretical dimensions of international law as well as for up-to-date analysis of topical issues. Additionally, it is the only journal to provide systematic coverage of the relationship between international law and the law of the European Union and its Member States.

This tool from the Bender Library helps you find online journals to which the University subscribes.

A comprehensive collection of searchable full-text PDF (or text) images of major law journal articles, including back issues. Check online table of contents for coverage of specific journal titles; new titles are added regularly. Also includes searchable pre-1981 issues of the Federal Register. New volumes are added regularly.

Covers selected journals and essay collections worldwide, many non-English language. The WCL community may use interlibrary loan to request articles from titles not in the collection. Provides coverage from 1983. In book form, this index provides coverage from 1960.

This legal periodicals index covers articles in Anglo-American law reviews and selected law-related books from 1983. It excludes legal newspapers. In hard copy, the ILPB provides coverage from 1907.

Industrial Law Journal is established as the leading U.K. periodical in its field, providing comment and in-depth analysis on a wide range of topics relating to employment law. It is essential reading for practising lawyers, academics, and lay industrial relations experts to keep abreast of newly enacted legislation and proposals for law reform. In addition Industrial Law Journal carries commentary on relevant government publications and reviews of books relating to labour law.

A journal for in-depth analytical research on the issues of international criminal law, dealing with the differences between civil and common law jurisdictions, and the development of law by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the International Criminal Court, and other international and hybrid tribunals.

The International Journal for the Semiotics of Law contains articles applying different forms of textual analysis to the discourses of the law. They include the semiotics of Greimas, Peirce and Lacan, rhetoric, philosophy of language, pragmatics, sociolinguistics and deconstructionism, as well as more traditional legal philosophical approaches to the language of the law. Articles are published in either English or French.

One of the key source materials in the field of refugee protection. The journal aims to stimulate research and thinking on refugee law and its development, taking account of the broadest range of State and international organization practice. It regularly provides key information and commentary on critical issues, including the causes of refugee and related movements, internal displacement, the particular situation of women and refugee children, the human rights dimension, restrictive policies, asylum and determination procedures, populations at risk and the conditions in different countries. It is of immeasurable value to anyone involved in refugee work, whether lawyers, teachers, students, researchers, NGO workers, or officials in immigration, government, and international organizations. In addition to publishing original articles, the journal also features regular sections containing selected documents, case abstracts and comments, book reviews and annotated bibliographies of reports and other publications.

"JELS fills a gap in the legal and social science literature that has often left scholars, lawyers, and policymakers without basic knowledge of legal systems."

The Journal of International Economic Law is dedicated to encouraging thoughtful and scholarly attention to a very broad range of subjects that concern the relation of law to international economic activity.

The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization is an interdisciplinary exercise. It seeks to promote an understanding of many complex phenomena by examining such matters from a combined law, economics, and organization perspective (or a two-way combination thereof). In this connection, we use the term organization broadly - to include scholarship drawing on political science, psychology and sociology, among other fields. It also holds the study of institutions - especially economic, legal, and political institutions - to be specifically important and greatly in need of careful analytic study.

The object of the Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'histoire du droit international is to contribute to the effort to make intelligible the international legal past, however varied and eccentric it may be, to stimulate interest in the whys, the whats and wheres of international legal development, and to promote the application of a sense of proportion to the study of modern international legal problems. The aim of the journal is to open fields of inquiry, to enable new questions to be asked, to be awake to and always aware of the plurality of human civilizations and cultures, past and present, and an appreciation of patterns of cultural flow and interaction that centrally affect international law and development.

Excludes recent 2-to-5 years, otherwise full text of scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences and math. Provided by American University's Bender Library.

Since 1967, Latin American Newsletters (LAN) has been acknowledged as the foremost source of intelligence on political and economic developments in Latin America and the Caribbean. Read by business investors, government officials and leading academics alike, LAN's comprehensive range of print and online resources offers subscribers a reliable, accurate and timely source of insight into key events that shape the region.

LawTRIO is a fully searchable bibliographic database of over 7,500 legal titles combined from three of our print directories. The titles come in three formats: looseleaf (from Legal Looseleafs in Print, newsletter (from Legal Newsletters in Print), and CD-ROM (from Directory of Law Related CD-ROMs).

The Legal History Review, was founded in 1918 by a number of Dutch jurists, who set out to stimulate a scholarly interest in legal history in their own country and also to provide a centre for international cooperation in the subject. It covers the common foundations of the western legal tradition but also to the special, frequently divergent development of national law in the various countries belonging to, or influenced by it. Modern and contemporary, as well as ancient and medieval history is considered. Roman law and its later development, as well as canon law, have always been particularly important; in addition the history of the English Common Law has been extensively studied.

The most comprehensive current legal periodicals index. Covers law reviews, bar journals, and legal newspapers. Provides coverage from 1980.

Free article publication service, similar to ExpressO. From the Washington & Lee Law Library.

Same-day publication of over 400 English- and foreign-language newspapers and magazines. Sixty-day backrun.

Runs from 1881 with currency lag.

A finding aid for all the microforms (both microfilm and microfiche) to which the library subscribes.

Runs from 1851 with currency lag.

List of electronic journals and newspapers accessible to Pence Law Library patrons, with links to the full text. Other electronic journals and newspapers may be available to library patrons via the main campus library's Aladin system.

Currently, Project MUSE® offers nearly 250 quality journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers. As one of the academic community's primary electronic journals resources, Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.

Abstracts of law-related scholarly working papers and articles accepted for publication, full text journals, professional announcements, calls for papers, and academic and industry job listings. Part of the Social Science Research Network. From main SSRN site, select "Legal Scholarship Network" from the left-hand menu. To create a customized subscription, select "Site Subscriptions for LSN," then "join an existing site" and complete the form.

One of the Berkeley Electronic Press journals, dealing with legal theory and jurisprudence.

Runs from 1785-1985.

Runs from 1984. To browse today's articles, limit your search to today's date.

Runs from 1877 with currency lag.

Non-U.S. media, including newspapers, magazines, media broadcasts and conference proceedings.