Guides: Faculty Guide: Find Scholarly Legal Articles

Initial Tips

Tip: Currently, remote access to many articles in BLS subscription databases requires implementation of the BLS proxy server instructions for 1 web browser. Based on patron feedback, BLS librarians recommend the proxy instructions for Firefox. In fall 2025, BLS will adopt OpenAthens to simplify remote access to BLS Library's digital resources. This will require implementation of new OpenAccess instructions.

Summer 2025: After implementing the BLS proxy instructions, close/reopen the browser. If you successfully implement the BLS proxy instructions, a prompt will appear requesting your BLS username/password.
- Need initial help implementing the BLS proxy instructions? Email: support@brooklaw.edu
Need help finding articles? Email: askthelibrary@brooklaw.edu

Tip: Faculty can create customized alerts in HeinOnline's Current Index to Legal Periodicals (CILP). Click: Create New SmartCILP User to receive weekly CILP email alerts about recently published articles on desired topics. Summer 2025: Remote access requires implementation of the BLS proxy server instructions.

CILP indexes material in 650+ [primarily U.S.] legal publications by subject headings.

Subscription Sources of Scholarly Legal Articles

Law Journal Library (HeinOnline)
- Contains published legal articles from 3,000+ law and law-related periodicals (PDF). Summer 2025: Remote access requires implementation of the BLS proxy server instructions for 1 web browser.
Law Reviews & Journals (Thomson Reuters Westlaw) Click link and enter your BLS Westlaw user name/password.

Oxford University Press Legal Journals & Yearbooks

Oxford University Press
- Links to digital versions of many legal journals and three legal yearbooks published by Oxford University Press (OUP). These OUP sources include the option to view articles in PDF. BLS also provides access to two additional journals not listed: Journal of Church and State and Journal of Refugee Studies.
- Most of these OUP sources also provide "Advance articles." (BLS researchers might need to click: More Content > Advance Articles.)
- The following eight titles are not included in the BLS subscription: Arbitration Law Reports and Review, Journal of Cybersecurity, Journal of Law and Biosciences, Journal of Legal Analysis, Parliamentary Affairs, Public Policy & Aging Report, Reports of Patent, Design and Trade Mark Cases and Review of Finance.

Repositories of Scholarly Legal Articles & Other Research

bepress Legal Repository
- Includes legal working papers and unpublished/recently published legal articles.
- Tip: Use "Advanced Search" to find articles by subject, keywords in abstract, author or title.
Law Commons (Digital Commons Network)
- Digital Commons Network 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 (on left), view articles grouped by sub-disciplines, including:
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.