The Rule of Law, Nazi Law and War Crimes Prosecutions: Resources

Sources of Published Legal Articles:

To search for an article from a law journal/review highlighted in your seminar syllabus (example: Neumann, Franz. L., "The Concept of Political Freedom," 53 Columbia Law Review 901 (Nov. 1953), use the pull-down menu in BLS Library's SARA catalog to search by title of the law journal/review:

In the SARA catalog record, click line: ACCESS ONLINE VERSION - (HEIN)

Then, scroll down to the volume of Columbia Law Review that you wish to find:

​HeinOnline's Law Journal Library provides 3,200+ scholarly journals from inception through "the most currently published issues allowed based on publisher contracts." 

• HeinOnline provides published legal articles (articles published in journals and in yearbooks).
• FYI: When you access a legal article, click the quotation mark icon to view HeinOnline's suggested Bluebook (21st ed.) format for citing to the article.  The Display ScholarCheck feature might yield subsequent articles that cited to the article.

To find relatively recent, published law review/journal articles, try:

Westlaw's Law Reviews & Journals and United Kingdom Journals

• Click links above and enter Westlaw user name and password.

Free Repositories of Legal Articles (& Some Book Chapters) 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• Includes legal working papers and unpublished/recently published legal articles.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
  • Law and Gender
  • Law and Race
  • Law and Society
  • 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:

• Civil Rights and Discrimination Commons
• Law and Gender Commons
• Legal History Commons

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• Includes legal working papers, unpublished/recently published legal articles, and even pre-prints of some book chapters.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:
  • legal history
  • race
  • racial justice

Other Sources of Published Articles:

To search for an article from a non-legal journal/review highlighted in your seminar syllabus (example: Morris, Douglas, "The Lawyer Who Mocked Hitler - And Other Jewish Commentaries on the Nuremberg Laws," 49 Central European History 383 (Dec. 2016), use the pull-down menu in BLS Library's SARA catalog to search by title of the journal/review:

In the SARA catalog record, click line: ACCESS ONLINE VERSION. In the example below, click line: ACCESS ONLINE VERSION - (JSTOR):

Then, scroll down to the volume of Central European History that you wish to find:

More Strategies:

Search many databases containing full-text articles through BLS Library's SARA catalog tab: OneSearch.

• Tip: Search results will include articles in subscription databases such as Academic Search Premier, HeinOnline, JSTOR, Project Muse and ProQuest. 
• Feel free to contact askthelibrary@brooklaw.edu for help using the Advanced Search feature. 

View BLS Library's ejournal holdings through SARA catalog tab: Find a Source.

• Tip: Enter: title of a journal (example: Jurisprudence).  Click: suggested title: Jurisprudence to view database links to the journal and dates of coverage for the journal. 
• Tip: If a publisher imposes an embargo on current content, search SARA catalog by the journal's title. (BLS Library might have a print subscription to the journal).  Also check New York Public Library's Online Resources & Databases page.  Some resources are accessible remotely to NYPL cardholders.

Try:

Google Scholar, bullet: Articles