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Law and Capitalism: Scholarly Legal Articles

Sources to support the Brooklyn Law School course: Law and Capitalism. Under development.

Potentially Useful Legal Journals & Annual Review Available Through BLS Library

BLS Library's SARA catalog describes, and links to, holdings of:

Tip: Until March 19, 2024, BLS patrons have trial access to content in the Sage journal collections described in this guide box.

Tip: If you are researching the history of Native Peoples' land dispossession, see page: Scholarly Legal Articles in this guide created to support the BLS course: Native American Law.

Tip: If you are researching the history of mass incarceration, see page: Journals & Sources of Articles in this BLS guide: Researching Mass Incarceration and Prison Abolition.

Creating CILP Alerts to Newly Published Legal Articles

HeinOnline: Current Index to Legal Periodicals (CILP) Alerts

  • Access CILP on campus, in BLS housing, and elsewhere off campus if one has implemented the BLS proxy server instructions.  BLS students, faculty and administrators: To receive CILP email alerts about recently published articles on specific topics, click: Create New SmartCILP User. 
  • CILP indexes material in 650+ [primarily U.S.] legal publications by subject headings.  CILP subject headings include: Civil Rights, Generally; Commercial Law; Contracts; Employment Practice; Gender; Indigenous Law; Labor Law; Land Use; Legal Education; and Legal History.

Finding Published Legal Articles Through Indexes

Subscription sources to find published legal articles:

Index to Legal Periodicals and Books Retrospective, 1908-1981

  • Access this retrospective Index on campus, in BLS housing, and elsewhere off campus if one has implemented the BLS proxy server instructions.
  • Publisher's summary states this source indexes 750+ "legal periodicals published in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand"; content from "38 printed compendia"; "annual surveys of laws by jurisdiction; annual surveys of federal court cases; yearbooks; and annual institutes."

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: capitalism.  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: capitalism or legal history to obtain a menu of available subjects.  Click a subject to view citations to articles.

Finding Legal Articles (& Some Legal Book Chapters)

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.  Subjects include:
    • Civil Rights and Discrimination
    • Contracts; Contract law
    • Employment Discrimination
    • Indigenous, Indian, and Aboriginal Law
    • Law and Economics
    • Law and Gender
    • Law and Race
    • Law and Society
    • Legal Education
    • Legal History

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. Keywords authors associate with their articles include:
    • Black history
    • civil rights
    • contract law
    • economic history
    • feminism
    • law reform
    • legal history
    • Native American law
    • race
    • racial capitalism        
    • racial justice
    • wealth inequality
    • women's history

Sources of published articles:

HeinOnline's ABA Law Library Collection Periodicals + Bar Journals (150+) provide many periodicals from inception-present.

​HeinOnline's Law Journal Library provides 3,200+ scholarly journals from inception through "the most currently published issues allowed based on publisher contracts" + Foreign and International Law Resources Database includes 120+ international yearbooks and periodicals (PDFs).

  • Access subscription HeinOnline databases on campus, in BLS housing, and elsewhere off campus if one has implemented the BLS proxy server instructions.
  • HeinOnline provides published legal articles (articles published in journals and in yearbooks).
  • Tips: Access a legal article and click tab: Cite to view HeinOnline's suggested Bluebook (21st ed.) format for citing to the article.  ScholarCheck feature might yield subsequent articles that cited to the article.

Westlaw's Law Reviews & Journals and United Kingdom Journals

  • Click links above and enter Westlaw 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.

Directory of Open Access Journals

World Legal Information Institute: Categories: Law Journals

  • This free "legal research facility" includes link Law Journals: "By Subject": [add subject or subjects]