Resource Guide:
Law and Pre-Law

The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.

• American Bar Association
• National Federation of Paralegal Associations
• American Bar Association Preparing for Law School
• The LSAT
• Law School Admission Council
• Guide to Law Online (Library of Congress)
• ABA LawInfo.org
• Library of Congress Congressional Research Service
• Supreme Court decisions
• Dept. of Justice
• Code of Federal Regulations (Searchable)
• United States Code (Searchable)
• Code of Virginia (Searchable)
• Constitutional Sources Project
• Current Issues in Legal Education
• ABA For Law Students Law School Essentials
• National Association for Law Placement Recent Graduates

Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.

• Law
• Legal Research
• Justice
• Commercial Law
• Business Law
• Marriage Law
• Jurisdiction
• Jurisprudence
• Courts
• International Law
• Natural Law
• Religion and Law
• Statutes
• Divorce‚ Law and Legislation
• Child Support‚ Law and Legislation
• Custody of Children
• Children‚ Legal Status, Laws
• Juvenile Justice, Administration

The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.

• Academic Search Complete
• ArchiveGrid
• Business Source Complete
• Credo Reference
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• Environment Complete
• GreenFILE
• Humanities International Complete
• JSTOR
• Legal Collection
• MasterFILE Premier
• Military & Government Collection
• Newspaper Source Plus
• OAISter
• Oxford Reference
• Religion and Philosophy Collection
• Women’s Studies International

The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.

• Family Law Quarterly
• Intellectual Property Today
• International Review of Law
• Journal of Legal Economics
• Law and Contemporary Problems
• Law and History Review
• Law and Inequality
• Law and Philosophy
• Law and Policy
• Law and Psychology Review
• Law and Society Review
• Law in Context
• Law Trends and News
• Law, Culture and the Humanities
• Law, Science and Policy
• Legal Ethics
• Legal History Review
• Legal Studies
• Legal Theory
• Legal Writing
• Harvard Law Review
• Stanford Law Review

Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.