Locating Journals
Why use a Law Journal?
Law journals are periodical publictions that offer articles that address and analyze different aspects of the law. Law Reviews are produced by law schools, bar associations, and commercial publishers. The can serve multiple purpsoses for an experienced attorney or a first-year law student. They provide a great starting point for those who are unfamiliar with a particular topic. Footnotes contained within the article can contain valuable information on primary sources (cases and statutes) that the author referenced to write the article Law journals are not primary authority, but can be used persuasively to convince a judge that the particular case precedent is antiquated and in need of a new interpretation or how a case should be interpretted when the no primary legal authority exist.
HeinOnline
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HeinOnline is Hein’s premier online research product with more than 100 million pages of legal history available in an online, fully-searchable, image-based format. HeinOnline bridges the gap in legal history by providing comprehensive coverage from inception of more than 2,000 law and law-related periodicals. In addition to its vast collection of law journals, HeinOnline provides access to the Congressional Record, U.S. Reports (back to 1754), famous world trials, the Federal Register from inception in 1936, the CFR from inception in 1938, and much more.
HeinOnline documents are exact digital scans of the original print of the journals in PDF format. This materials contain the original page numbering as well as in charts, graphs, tables, or photographs used in the original publication. Almost all of the journals in the HeinOnline collection have been scanned back to the first volume.
