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Law Review and Law Journal Articles
- Scholarly articles written by experts.
- Published by law schools, etc.
- May discuss a topic of law.
- Use relevant cases to illustrate the topic.
- Students interested in a case might find a case they are briefing explained in everyday language.
Searching Law Reviews and Law Journal Articles: Westlaw
- Go to Westlaw.
- Under All Content tab, click on Secondary Sources.
- Click on Law Reviews & Journals.
- Will be searching all law reviews and journals. Can click on Texas to search only Texas publications.
- In search box, type in one case name or one citation in “quotation marks”:
- “kelo v. city of new london”
- kelo w/sent “city of new london” (notice that you will only put a particular phrase in "quotation marks" when using this "trick" search)
- “545 u.s. 469”
- TIP: For some cases with parallel citations, might be best to search by case name.
- Click Search button
- May browse articles or filter the results by Search within results option in the left column.
- Click on a blue link of law review cite to read article—might find background information on your case