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  • 1. DittakaviRao
    Associate Director
    Duquesne University Center for Legal Information
    2011
    Five Law School / University Websites for Legal Research

2. Law School/University Websites
Several Law School/Libraries and University Libraries created excellent resources for a specific type of information.
The following five sites are useful for the legal researchers.
- New York Law School - Law Reviews
- University of Richmond School of Law - Constitutions (National/Global)
- University of California Santa Barbara - Presidential Documents
- University of Pittsburgh Law School - Legal Information
- NYU School of Law - International Law
3. New York Law Schoolwww.nyls.edu/library
Tracks 150 Law Journals
Weekly Updates
Click on Research Guides and Tools
Click on Law Reviews with Online Content
Notice Red (Newly Updated) and Blue signs
4. Click Research Guides and Tools
5. Click on Law Reviews with Online Content
6. Red means a new issue added
7. Current Issue
8. University of Richmond School of Lawhttp://confinder.richmond.edu
Provides full text of Constitutions of all the countries and all states of USA.
Select a country under Country heading on left of the page.
Provides native language and English versions
Provides links from various sources to the same text
Click on National Link under Constitution Subcategories heading on the left for individual states Constitutions of USA.
9. 10. 11. 12. 13. University of California Santa Barbarawww.presidency.ucsb.edu
Archive contains 96,816 documents related to the study of the Presidency.
Click on Documents tab from the main menu
Select the type of documents such as Executive Orders, Proclamations, President Signing Statements etc.
14. Click on Documents
15. 16. 17. 18. 19. University of Pittsburgh Law Schoolwww.jurist.law.pitt.edu
Known as Paper Chase provides comprehensive legal news and research service
Archival information goes back to 2003
Covers United States and World real-time legal news
Provides commentaries written by expert legal scholars, leading policymakers and key legal practitioners from the United States and abroad.
20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. New York University School of Lawwww.nyulawglobal.com/globalex
An electronic legal publication dedicated to international and foreign law research
Includes articles, links and helping tools to build to research International law
Subtopics include:
International Law Research
Comparative Law Research
Foreign Law Research
Tools for Building Law Collection