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Housing Justice: Scholarly Legal Articles

Sources to support the Brooklyn Law School Housing Justice Clinic. Under development.

Finding Articles: Tips

  • BLS researchers who plan to work off campus and do not live in a BLS residence: implement the BLS proxy server instructions for 1 web browser, then close/reopen that browser. 
  • BLS researchers can request unavailable articles through BLS Library's interlibrary loan form/service. 
    • Before making an interlibrary loan request, BLS researchers can access Find a Source and can enter a journal's title to view available journal holdings.
    • Need help placing your first interlibrary loan request?  Email: askthelibrary@brooklaw.edu

CILP Alerts About Newly Published 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: Housing Law.

BLS students, faculty and administrators: To receive CILP email alerts about recently published articles on specific topics, click: Create New SmartCILP User.  To access CILP from off-campus locations: implement the BLS proxy server instructions for one web browser.  

Finding Published Legal Articles Through Indexes

LegalTrac

  • Access LegalTrac on campus, in BLS housing, and elsewhere off campus if one has implemented the BLS proxy server instructions.
  • Indexes law reviews, bar journals, and legal newspapers, including full-text coverage of selected titles.  Gale's summary states: "Covers [U.S.] federal and state cases, laws and government regulations, legal practice, taxation, and international law. Includes British Commonwealth and European Union cases and law. Updated daily."
  • LegalTrac's Topic Finder - Enter a term like: housing policy New York.  LegalTrac states: "Clicking on a topic wheel or tile narrows your original search results to the documents also containing that subject or term."

 

  • LegalTrac's Subject Guide Search - Type a term like: housing policy or housing discrimination to obtain a menu of available subjects.  Click a subject to view citations to articles.

How Do I Find Legal Articles?

Repositories that include pre-prints:

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Includes legal working papers and unpublished/recently published legal articles.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

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, and even pre-prints of some book chapters.  

Sources of published articles:

​HeinOnline's Law Journal Library provides PDFs.

HeInOnline provides published legal articles (articles published in journals and in yearbooks).

(Access subscription HeinOnline databases on campus, in BLS housing, and elsewhere off campus if one has implemented the BLS proxy server instructions.)

Westlaw's Law Reviews & Journals 

(Click link above and enter Westlaw user name and password.)

Lexis+'s Law Reviews & Journals

        (Click link above and enter Lexis user name and password.)

Google Scholar, bullet: Articles

If a BLS researcher does not plan to work on campus or in BLS housing: Before searching, implement the BLS proxy server instructions.  Then, the BLS researcher will be able to access more full-text articles in Google Scholar search results.