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Housing Justice

Sources to support the Brooklyn Law School Housing Justice Clinic.

Finding Articles: Tips

  • 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.  

Finding Published Legal Articles Through Indexes

LegalTrac

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Includes legal working papers and unpublished/recently published legal articles.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Includes legal working papers, unpublished/recently published legal articles, and even pre-prints of some book chapters.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

Westlaw's Law Reviews & Journals 

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

Lexis+'s Law Reviews & Journals

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Google Scholar, bullet: Articles