Guides: Career Research: Scholarly Legal Articles

Repositories That Include Preprints of Scholarly Legal Articles & Book Chapters

Repositories That Include Preprints of Legal Articles & Book Chapters:

Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
Scope: Worldwide. Includes legal working papers, forthcoming/recently published legal articles, and even some forthcoming book chapters. Search default = search of title, abstract and keywords.
Tip: BLS student researchers will greatly benefit from searching the current material in this repository.
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Includes legal working papers and unpublished/recently published legal articles.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 or title.

Published Legal Articles: Repositories & Collections of Articles in Databases:

Law Commons (Digital Commons Network)
Open access repository of published articles. BrooklynWorks (Brooklyn Law School's scholarly repository) is part of this network.
TIP: From the main page of Law Commons (on left), view articles grouped by sub-disciplines, including:
Law Journal Library (HeinOnline)
Contains published legal articles from 3,000+ law and law-related periodicals (PDF).
Law Reviews & Journals (Thomson Reuters Westlaw)
Click link above and enter your Westlaw user name and password.

BLS students, faculty and administrators can request unavailable articles through BLS Library's interlibrary loan form/service.

Need help placing your first interlibrary loan request? Email: askthelibrary@brooklaw.edu