United States Supreme Court Research: Scholarly Legal Articles

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Includes legal working papers and unpublished/recently published legal articles.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Includes legal working papers, unpublished/recently published legal articles, and even pre-prints of some book chapters.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).  This database is accessible to researchers who are on campus. Remote access by current BLS students, faculty and administrators requires use of the BLS proxy server.

• Cato Supreme Court Review
  • BLS Library's print holdings: 2001-2022.
• HeinOnline > U.S. Supreme Court Library > Cato Supreme Court Review (subscription)
  • Scope: 2001-2022.

• 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. Accessible to researchers who are on campus. Remote access by current BLS students, faculty and administrators requires use of the BLS proxy server.