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Recommended article and law review databases

Annual Reviews
A collection of critical reviews of primary research literature reviews. Includes 51 Annual Review titles.
Index to Legal Periodicals & Books Full Text & Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective
Indexes articles from legal periodicals, including law reviews, as well as yearbooks, bar association publications, court decisions, government documents, books, and book reviews.
Nexis Uni
Coverage of news and current events, government, business, medical, and legal topics, as well as general reference information is included.
Use is restricted to current faculty and staff and currently-enrolled students of Davidson College only.
Web of Science
An interdisciplinary resource with journals, books, and proceedings in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
Access is restricted to current faculty and staff and currently-enrolled students of Davidson College only.
WestLaw Campus Research
WestSearch examines all core legal content for the jurisdiction you choose.
Note: Usage is unlimited however document delivery is limited. Recommended best practice is to bookmark documents in your browser rather than download.

Legal Reference Sources

Gale eBooks Reference Library
Encyclopedias and reference sources that cover a variety of topics.
WestLaw Campus Research
WestSearch examines all core legal content for the jurisdiction you choose.
Note: Usage is unlimited however document delivery is limited. Recommended best practice is to bookmark documents in your browser rather than download.

Historical legal documents

Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 US & UK
(1800-1926) The Making of Modern Law features a fully searchable database of approximately 10 million pages and more than 21,000 works of U.S. and U.K. historical legal treatises; includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works written for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches, and more.
Part of Gale Primary Sources.
Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources
Includes published records of the American colonies, documents published by state constitutional conventions, state and territorial codes, municipal codes, city charters, law dictionaries, digests, and more.
Davidson College has access to:
Part I, 1620-1926
Part II, 1763-1979
Making of Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926
Digital facsimiles of trial transcripts, official records of proceedings, and popular printed accounts of U.S. and U.K. trials.
Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978
(1832-1978) Digital facsimiles of over 350,000 official Court filings; covers 150,000 Supreme Court cases. Documents include briefs, petitions, transcripts, and more. Drawn from the collections of the Jenkins Memorial Law Library in Philadelphia and the Library of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.

U.S. Federal cases

Legal Information Institute
The full text of U.S. Supreme Court Opinions (1990 to present), federal and state court decisions, the current U.S. Code, the U.S. Constitution, and state constitutions and codes. Also provides background information on a variety of legal topics allowing users from outside the legal profession to more easily access and understand the laws that govern them.
Nexis Uni
Coverage of news and current events, government, business, medical, and legal topics, as well as general reference information is included.
Use is restricted to current faculty and staff and currently-enrolled students of Davidson College only.
Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978
(1832-1978) Digital facsimiles of over 350,000 official Court filings; covers 150,000 Supreme Court cases. Documents include briefs, petitions, transcripts, and more. Drawn from the collections of the Jenkins Memorial Law Library in Philadelphia and the Library of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
WestLaw Campus Research
WestSearch examines all core legal content for the jurisdiction you choose.
Note: Usage is unlimited however document delivery is limited. Recommended best practice is to bookmark documents in your browser rather than download.

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