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Primary sources in law include state and local statutes, regulations, case law* and court decisions and secondary sources:
(*Case law is "law based on judicial opinions, as opposed to law based on statutes, regulations, or other sources," according to NOLO's Plain English Law Dictionary.)
Watch the following video tutorials on how to find cases using the Westlaw database.
Federal and state court cases, statutes, & regulations; law reviews & journals; legal research encyclopedias; and some international legal resources, company information, and news.
Secondary sources are legal commentary and analysis in trade and scholarly law review journals:
Citations and select full-text for all major law reviews, law journals, and legal newspapers. Coverage of federal and state cases, laws and regulations, legal practice, and taxation.
Online business library database of millions of full-text items across scholarly and popular periodicals, newspapers, market research reports, dissertations, books, videos and more. See Vendor's guide for useful information.
Peer-reviewed journals, business trade journals, and news, in both full-text coverage plus indexing and abstracts dating back as far as 1886.
It can also be searched using Enhanced Interface Searching.
Listed below are links to a few of the top business law journals you can access through the library.
Full-text, individual articles from print and online editions (online edition since 2010). Does not include images, multimedia presentations, or data visualizations.
Current and archival to 1980s U.S. news featuring key national and regional sources including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Newsday, and Chicago Tribune.
Database with global, national, and regional news, featuring newspapers, newswires, magazines, and video in English and many other languages.
Andersen Library is a federal and Wisconsin depository library with federal and state government documents available to you in various formats (print, DVD/CD-ROM, online). You can find these resources on the lower level (1st floor) of the library in the Government Documents Collection. The following might be particularly useful for legal research:
You can also find physical copies of various Reporters in the Law Collection on the main (2nd) floor of the library, including: