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Researching Copyright Law

A guide to copyright law resources available through Brooklyn Law School.

CILP Alerts About Newly Published Legal Articles

HeinOnline: Current Index to Legal Periodicals (CILP) Alerts

  • CILP indexes material in 650+ [primarily U.S.] legal publications by subject headings.  A useful CILP subject heading is: Intellectual Property.
  • BLS students, faculty and administrators: To receive CILP email alerts about recently published articles on specific topics, click: Create New SmartCILP User (on right of screen).
  • Note to BLS students, faculty & administrators: Remote access to HeinOnline requires use of OpenAthens technology.  See this guide page: BLS Library Technology: Remote Access: Signing In.

Sources of Scholarly Legal Articles

Repositories that include pre-prints:

bepress Legal Repository

  • Includes legal working papers + unpublished/recently published legal articles. 
  • Use Advanced Search to find articles by subject, keywords in abstract, author + title.   

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:

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

  • Includes legal working papers, unpublished/recently published legal articles + even pre-prints of some book chapters.  

Sources of published articles:

​HeinOnline's Law Journal Library + Foreign and International Law Resources Database provide PDFs.

  • HeinOnline provides published legal articles (articles published in journals and in yearbooks).
  • Note to BLS students, faculty & administrators: Remote access to HeinOnline requires use of OpenAthens technology.  See this guide page: BLS Library Technology: Remote Access: Signing In.

Westlaw's Law Reviews & Journals (requires Westlaw user name + password.)

Google Scholar, bullet: Articles

Law Reviews & Journals Focused on Intellectual Property

Westlaw's Intellectual Property Law Reviews & Journals (requires Westlaw username + password)

Below are lInks to selected legal periodicals focused on intellectual property in subscription HeinOnline database.  In BLS Library's SARA catalog record, click: ACCESS ONLINE VERSION - HEIN. 

Note to BLS students, faculty & administrators: Remote access to HeinOnline requires use of OpenAthens technology.  See this guide page: BLS Library Technology: Remote Access: Signing In. 

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Jean Davis adapted content on this page from Paper Topic Development: International: Scholarly Legal Articles.