Guides: National Security & Human Rights: Resources: Scholarly Legal Articles

LegalTrac Tool to Find Published Legal Articles

Subscription tool to find published legal articles: LegalTrac > in BLS Library's SARA catalog record, click: ACCESS ONLINE VERSION - (GALE).

In LegalTrac's "Topic Finder":

Enter a term like: national security law. LegalTrac states: "Clicking on a topic wheel or tile [like Human Rights in the sample search result below] narrows your original search results to the documents also containing that subject or term." Many search results will be available in full text. For help in obtaining the full text of a search result, feel free to email: askthelibrary@brooklaw.edu or to text: 718-734-2432.
Tip: HeinOnline's Law Journal Library and Foreign and International Law Resources Database provide content from many legal journals in PDF.

In LegalTrac's "Subject Guide" Search:

Type words like: national security and search.
Tip: You also can view articles categorized under a subject's subdivisions.

Collections of Legal Articles

Ukraine Symposium: International Law in the Crucible of Conflict, Vol. 1 (2025) by Sean Watts, Ronald Alcala & Mehmet Coban, eds.
Publicly accessible collection. Click link: "PDF."
Description states: "This volume features articles that address a range of legal topics arising from the Ukraine-Russia conflict. Among other things, the volume examines subjects associated with the battlefield status and protections afforded to combatants, prisoners of war, foreign fighters, and civilians. It also evaluates the use of particular weapons, such as Molotov cocktails and thermobaric munitions, while also examining the conflict from the perspective of the jus ad bellum."

Repositories that include pre-prints:

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:
- National Security Law Commons - Tip: Enter keywords in the Search this Commons box (top right).
Depending on your area of interest, you also might wish to view articles in:

SSRN (might require registration to access an article--registration is free)

This repository includes legal working papers, unpublished/recently published legal articles, and even pre-prints of some book chapters. Enter keywords like: drone national security.

Sources of published articles:

HeinOnline's Law Journal Library and Foreign and International Law Resources Database provide PDFs.

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

Westlaw's Law Reviews & Journals and United Kingdom Journals

Click links above and enter your Westlaw user name/password.

Lexis+ tab: International

Includes: Canada > All Canada Law Reviews and Journals and United Kingdom > All United Kingdom Law Reviews and Journals
Click links above and enter your Lexis+ user name/password.

Google Scholar, bullet: Articles

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]