Research Guides: Constitution Day 2023: Public Citizenship: Legal Research

Finding Legal Research at UD

Westlaw Campus Research
A research service that combines a breadth of news and business information with in depth law-related information.
Includes:
- Current and archival coverage of newspapers, magazines, broadcast transcripts, wires, and trade journals.
- Company Investigator, an authoritative source for researching and gaining insight on more than 30 million public and private companies.
- Topical categories to refine searches and obtain more precise results.
- Expert analysis from hundreds of law reviews and journals, encyclopedias, and treatises.
- Full-text legislation, regulations, and court decisions.
- Integrated research tools, such as template searching, headnotes, case synopses, West Key Number System®, KeyCite®, and hypertext linking to related documents.
HeinOnline Academic
Image-based government document and legal research database. Extensive coverage of U.S. statutory materials, congressional documents and treaties. Also includes all of the world’s constitutions, collections of classic treatises, and presidential documents. Coverage of U.S. goverrnment publications is comprehensive back to inception, and all titles are exact replicas of the official print publication from the U.S. Government Publishing Office. A large assortment of international resources are also available.
Contains thousdand of law-related journals on a variety of subjects, all dating back to inception with over 90% available through the current issue or volume. Subject related collections are often curated and made available.
Nexis Uni
Full-text information from news, business, and legal sources, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790. Though not required, you have the option to create a personal account that will give you access to special features such as alerts, saved searches, folders, history, annotations and more.
Vendor Lyrasis. Publisher LexisNexis.

Most of the legal material is located in the K's on the lower level of the library. However, you might find relevant sources across several disciplines. You can locate specific material by searching by keywords on the library's homepage.

We have a small legal reference collection located on the first floor of the library in Room 116. Other legal material can be accessed via Westlaw.

Law Library of Congress
The official law library of legislators.
Delaware Courts
Provides information for all level of courts in Delaware, opinions, and oral arguments from the Supreme Court in Delaware.
New Castle County Law Library
Legal Information Institute
This site is maintained by a group of scholars who believe everyone should be able to read and understand the laws that govern them. The sties includes recent and historic Supreme Court decisions, access to online versions of the U.S. Code, the CFR, and Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.