Research, Citation, & Class Guides: HELEAD 720: Legal Issues in Higher Education: Get Started

Finding Court Cases, Statutes and Other Legal Research

Academic Search Complete
Full-text access to articles from over 7,000 journals (including nearly 6,000 peer-reviewed journals), magazines, and reference sources.
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Westlaw Campus Research
Federal and state court cases, statutes, & regulations; law reviews & journals; legal research encyclopedias; and some international legal resources, company information, and news.
LegalTrac
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.

The Higher Education Compliance Alliance (HECA)
provides a useful summary of state and local laws that impact private institutions of higher education.
This open-access resource is maintained by the Office of General Counsel of The Catholic University of America.

Congress.gov
Official site for U.S. federal legislative information, including Public Laws and bills, daily Congressional Record, CRS reports, roll call votes, committee schedules, legislator profiles, and treaty documents.
govinfo (U.S. GPO)
Official publications from the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government, including bills and statutes, congressional committee reports, proceedings of Congress, regulatory materials, and presidential materials.

Chronicle of Higher Education
a source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty and administration in the United States, Canada, and abroad. (UW-W subscription resource)

Inside Higher Ed
open-access online publication of news, editorial, reports, data, and jobs in higher education.
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National Association of College and University Attorneys: Cases & Developments (Topic browse only)
(No access through UWW). NACUA notes recent court decisions and legal developments in higher education law as well as legal information pertaining to higher education. Browse topics.