Legal Scholarship: Preemption Checks and Literature Reviews

More than 21,000 American and British legal works: casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches, and more — organized into 99 subject areas.

Contains documents from most but not all cases from that time period. The records and briefs are searchable by case name, case citation, author and full text, and are available in PDF format.

Online version of the most current edition of The Chicago Manual of Style

Online legal research service providing access to a large collection of statutes, case law, treatises, and journal articles, as well as current news articles and business information. A personal username and password are necessary for this site.

LexisNexis is an online resource that features access to legal, business, and news sources. A researcher can search Cases, Court Records, Legislative Codes, Legal News, Wire Services, Newspapers, Public Records, and more through LexisNexis. A personal username and password are necessary for this site.
For BYU Law Students and Faculty only. An authorized User ID is required.

Large database of legal materials. HeinOnline is known for its extensive collection of law journals, but it also contains many primary law and legislative history sources such as state and federal session laws, the United States Code, Supreme Court opinions and the U.S. Serial Set, and world constitutions. HeinOnline also contains many specialized collections, including collections focused on capital punishment, immigration law, the history of international law, and gun legislation and regulation in America.

Valuable resource for the most current legal and other scholarly literature because it has draft versions of many articles before their official publication, as well as published articles.

An index of articles in hundreds of law reviews, legal newspapers, and bar association journals in the U.S. and abroad since 1980. Search by subject or keyword.

A searchable index of hundreds of thousands of articles published in legal periodicals in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, Ireland, and Australia between 1908 and 1981, very useful when searching for older law review articles.

Library catalog for libraries across the country. Find books that BYU might not have and request through Inter-library loan. Not a full text search.

Large database of legal materials. HeinOnline is known for its extensive collection of law journals, but it also contains many primary law and legislative history sources such as state and federal session laws, the United States Code, Supreme Court opinions and the U.S. Serial Set, and world constitutions. HeinOnline also contains many specialized collections, including collections focused on capital punishment, immigration law, the history of international law, and gun legislation and regulation in America.

An index of articles in hundreds of law reviews, legal newspapers, and bar association journals in the U.S. and abroad since 1980. Search by subject or keyword.

A subject index to selected international and comparative law journals and essays. Covers 1984 to present.

LexisNexis is an online resource that features access to legal, business, and news sources. A researcher can search Cases, Court Records, Legislative Codes, Legal News, Wire Services, Newspapers, Public Records, and more through LexisNexis. A personal username and password are necessary for this site.
For BYU Law Students and Faculty only. An authorized User ID is required.

Online legal research service providing access to a large collection of statutes, case law, treatises, and journal articles, as well as current news articles and business information. A personal username and password are necessary for this site.