Scholarly Resources - LAW 2150 - Legal Environment of Business - Research Guides at Appalachian State University

Using Articles From Law Reviews

One of the best ways to begin legal research is to find a relevant law review article.

What is a Law Review?
Law review articles are written by professors, attorneys, and law school students. These scholarly publications contain lengthy articles and shorter essays by professors and lawyers, as well as comments, footnotes. or developments in the law written by students.
Why use a Law Review?
By finding one good article from a law review, you will get a discussion, analysis and critique of a topic and additional reference to pertinent cases, statutes and other law review articles.

Finding Articles

ABI/Inform Collection This link opens in a new window
Business research from journals, trade publications, market research reports, dissertations, and working papers.
Business research from journals, trade publications, market research reports, dissertations, and working papers.
Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides full text access for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications.
Provides full text access for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications.
CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
Explores a single hot issue in the news in-depth each week. Each report is written by an experienced journalist and features comments from experts, lawmakers and citizens on all sides of every issue.
Explores a single hot issue in the news in-depth each week. Each report is written by an experienced journalist and features comments from experts, lawmakers and citizens on all sides of every issue.
Law Reviews (Nexis Uni) This link opens in a new window
Full text review articles from over 500 legal publications.
Full text review articles from over 500 legal publications.
WestlawNext This link opens in a new window
Offers access to statutes, cases, and regulations of all fifty states as well as all federal jurisdictions (1790-present).
Offers access to statutes, cases, and regulations of all fifty states as well as all federal jurisdictions.

Click for a complete list of Law databases

Accessing and Searching WestlawNext

WestlawNext This link opens in a new window
Offers access to statutes, cases, and regulations of all fifty states as well as all federal jurisdictions (1790-present).
Offers access to statutes, cases, and regulations of all fifty states as well as all federal jurisdictions.

Instructions: You will be asked to sign in - select I agree then click continue.
Step 1: From the All Content list select Secondary Sources
Step 2: From the By Type list select Law Reviews & Journals

Step 3: Enter terms in the search box

Google Scholar Search

TIPS:
Review the search results list to determine the:
1) format for materials: article, working paper, book, white paper, etc)
2) the access options: PDF (freely available), Find@ASU (ASU pays for it)

LAW 2150 - Legal Environment of Business: Scholarly Resources

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Using Articles From Law Reviews

Finding Articles

Accessing and Searching WestlawNext

Google Scholar Search

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