Guides: Faculty Guide: Find Scholarly Legal Articles

Initial Tips

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.

CILP indexes material in 650+ [primarily U.S.] legal publications by subject headings.
Need help finding articles? Email: askthelibrary@brooklaw.edu

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 and enter your BLS Westlaw user name/password.

Oxford University Press
- Links to digital versions of many legal journals and three legal yearbooks published by Oxford University Press (OUP). BLS 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.)
- These OUP sources Include the option to view articles in PDF.
- Please note that 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.

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- Includes legal working papers and unpublished/recently published legal articles.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