The Legal Defense Fund’s Thurgood Marshall Institute has launched Recollection: A Civil Rights Legal Archive. This digital archive is a collection of “legal case files, legislative advocacy materials, reports and publications, correspondence, photographs, videos, administrative and fundraising materials, documentation of LDF’s sustained efforts in community organizing and social science research, and oral history interviews.” This…
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The UIC Library provides access to the New York Times and Wall Street Journal online. Information on signing up for the Times is available at https://researchguides.uic.edu/newspapers/nytacademicpass. Note that you will need your NetID to sign up, and if you would like to use an email associated with an existing account, you will need to disconnect…
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We have subscribed to a digital collection of study guides published by LexisNexis. These titles include the popular Understanding and Questions & Answers study guide series, as well as many legal treatises published by Lexis. Please note that if you used the trial access to the library over the spring and summer, you will need…
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West Academic provides access to their eBooks starting the week before classes start through the first two weeks of classes of the fall semester. To gain access, students can visit eproducts.westacademic.com and create an account (please type the url if you’re unable to click or copy and paste). More detailed instructions are available here.
Looking for a law review article, an old federal statute, or a historical treaty? You can find all of these and considerably more in HeinOnline. HeinOnline is a database that is best known for its collection of law reviews and journals—to access a specific journal, click on the catalog tab above the search bar and enter the…
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Both continuing students and spring 2016 graduates can continue to access Westlaw, Lexis Advance, and Bloomberg. Here is a breakdown of what, if anything, you need to do to make that happen: Westlaw – Continuing students may continue to access Westlaw for certain purposes through the summer by extending your password here. If you do not complete that extension…
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Have you ever been on the train and wanted to go over your notes on that case you’re using for Herzog? Or maybe your laptop’s busted and you need to access a treatise on copyright. If you find yourself in a situation in which you need…
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Not sure where to find help for your Crim Law course? Having trouble starting your seminar paper? What about your mock trial competition? Find resources and information on these topics and more in our librarian-curated research guides. Other popular guides cover international law, Illinois legislative history, and the treatise finder. Looking for a guide that we…
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If you’ve recently logged in to Lexis Advance , you may have been surprised to see a new interface. Lexis rolled this in September: If you have any questions about navigating this updated interface, please contact Philip Johnson at pjohnso@jmls.edu or our Lexis representative, Carter Mills, at carter.mills@lexisnexis.com.
If you have an interest in arbitration, labor, and employment law, LawMemo may be of use to you. LawMemo offers three reporters, custom case alerts, and access to a labor & employment database with summaries of cases dating back to 1999. It covers all state and federal appellate courts, including the D.C. Circuit and the U.S. Supreme…
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