Resource Guide:
Constitutional Law

• First Amendment: Cases, Controversies, and Contexts - Second Edition
• Hot Topics under the First Amendment

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

• Constitutional Law (Cornell)
• Constitutional Sources Project (ConSource)
• Freedom Forum Institute
• Legal Information Institute (Cornell)
• Legal Research Encyclopedia (Cornell)
• Constitution: Analysis and Interpretation (GPO Access)
• U.S. Constitution Online
• International Constitutional Law
• International Association of Constitutional Law
• Guide to Law Online (Library of Congress)
• Library of Congress Congressional Research Service
• Recent Congressional reports and hearings
• Supreme Court decisions
• Recent Public Laws
• The Wall Street Journal – Law Section

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.

• Constitutional law -- United States OR United States--Constitution
• Constitutional amendments--United States
• Constitutional History
• History of constitutional reform
• Judicial process -- United States
• United States. Supreme Court
• Civil Rights
• Judicial Process
• Appellate courts
• Freedom of speech

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

• Academic Search Complete
• Communication & Mass Media Complete
• Credo Reference
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• Films on Demand
• HeinOnline
• Humanities International Complete
• JSTOR
• Legal Collection
• Military & Government Collection
• Oxford English Dictionary
• Oxford Reference
• PhilPapers
• Philosopher’s Index
• Proquest Dissertations and Theses Global
• Proquest Major Dailies
• Religion and Philosophy Collection
• Statista
• Wiley Online Library
• 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.

• Constitutional Commentary
• Constitutional Forum
• Constitutional Law Journal
• First Amendment and Media Litigation
• First Amendment Law Review
• Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review
• Law and History Review
• Law and Policy
• Legal History Review
• Seton Hall Constitutional Law Journal
• Supreme Court debates
• United States Reports (Supreme Court of the United States)
• University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law
• William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal

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.