Winning Research Skills - Westlaw
Winning Research Skills - Westlaw
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Chapter 13<br />
Law Reviews<br />
Most U.S. law schools publish at least one law review, which generally contains lengthy articles<br />
and footnotes by legal scholars or practitioners on a variety of legal topics. Many schools also<br />
publish specialized journals that focus on practice areas or fields of emerging law.<br />
On <strong>Westlaw</strong>, you can access full-text documents from hundreds of law reviews, along with<br />
continuing legal education (CLE) course materials and bar journals, in the Journals and Law<br />
Reviews database (JLR). <strong>Westlaw</strong> also offers an individual database for each law review or<br />
journal it carries, with selected coverage for most periodicals beginning with the 1980s.<br />
Beginning with volumes dated 1994, all academic law review and journal databases contain full<br />
coverage of articles, comments, and case notes for which authors provide copyright releases.<br />
■ When you want to retrieve a law review article and you have its citation, use the Find service.<br />
(For more information about using Find, refer to Chapter 7.)<br />
■ When you want to retrieve an article using its title, access a database and restrict your search<br />
to the title field (ti). For example, to retrieve an article titled “National Security, Liberty, and<br />
the D.C. Circuit,” access the JLR database and type the following Terms and Connectors<br />
query:<br />
ti(liberty & security & d.c.)<br />
■ When you want to retrieve articles written by a particular author, access a database and restrict<br />
your search to the author field (au). For example, if you want to retrieve articles written by<br />
Laurence H. Tribe, access the JLR database and type the following Terms and Connectors<br />
query:<br />
au(laurence /3 tribe)<br />
Texts and Treatises<br />
<strong>Westlaw</strong> contains the full text of many texts and treatises frequently consulted by law students.<br />
These resources are available in individual databases and in the Texts and Treatises database<br />
(TEXTS), which contains most of the texts and treatises available on <strong>Westlaw</strong>.<br />
American Law Reports<br />
American Law Reports, published by West, includes extensive annotations that provide detailed<br />
analysis of the development and judicial treatment of a point of law. The American Law Reports<br />
database (ALR) is an excellent place to begin your research on almost any legal issue.<br />
You can search the ALR database using either the Terms and Connectors or the Natural<br />
Language search method. Your search result is displayed as a list of annotations. To view the<br />
full text of an annotation along with the Links tab, which provides links to related information,<br />
click its title in the list.<br />
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