United States Supreme Court Research

HeinOnline: Current Index to Legal Periodicals (CILP) Alerts

CILP indexes material in 650+ [primarily U.S.] legal publications by subject headings.  CILP subject headings include: Civil Rights, Generally; Constitutional Law, Generally; and Supreme Court of the United States.

BLS students, faculty and administrators: To receive CILP email alerts about recently published articles on specific topics, click: Create New SmartCILP User. 

Tip: Articles dealing with all aspects of the U.S. Supreme Court may be found by searching Legal Source (covering the Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books Full Text, and the Index to Legal Periodicals & Books Retrospective) and LegalTrac.

• bepress Legal Repository 

Includes legal working papers and unpublished/recently published legal articles. 

Use Advanced Search to find articles by subject, keywords in abstract, author and title.  Subjects include: Civil rights, Constitution, Constitutional law, and Supreme Court of the United States.    

• Law Commons is an open access repository of scholarly articles and other research.  BrooklynWorks (Brooklyn Law School's scholarly repository) is part of this network. TIP: From the main page of Law Commons, view articles grouped by sub-discipline, such as:

Civil Rights and Discrimination Commons

Constitutional Law Commons

Supreme Court of the United States Commons

• SSRN (might require registration to access an article--registration is free)

Includes legal working papers, unpublished/recently published legal articles, and even pre-prints of some book chapters.  Keywords include: Civil rights, Constitutional law, and Supreme Court of the United States.         

• HeinOnline: U.S. Supreme Court Library > In SARA catalog record, click: ACCESS ONLINE VERSION - (HEIN) > tab: Periodicals and Serials on the Court (16). 

• Cato Supreme Court Review
  • BLS Library's print holdings: 2001-2024.
• HeinOnline > U.S. Supreme Court Library > Cato Supreme Court Review (subscription)
  • Scope: 2001-2023.

• Index to the Journal of Supreme Court History Volumes 1-47 (1976-2022)
• Journal of Supreme Court History (now published 3 times/year)
  • BLS Library's print subscription is closed.
  • BLS Library's print holdings: 1990-v. 45, no. 3 (published Nov. 1, 2020).
  • Available in Academic Search Premier (a BLS subscription database) from Mar. 1, 2000-, with a 1-year embargo on current content.  PDF.
    • In linked page above, click line: Full Text: 03/01/2000 to present (with a 12 Month delay)
  • Available in HeinOnline (a BLS subscription database) from 1976-1998, vols. 24-45 (1999-2020), with a 3-year embargo on current content.  Title varies. 1976-1989: Title previously was: Yearbook: Supreme Court Historical Society.  PDF.
• Yearbook: Supreme Court Historical Society (old title - originally published annually)
  • BLS Library's print holdings: 1976-1989.

• The Supreme Court Review (subscription)
  • SARA catalog record links to BLS Library's digital holdings from University of Chicago Press and Hein.