Looking for a place to start when researching the law and legal system of a country outside the United States? Start your research with Foreign Law Guide. Under the general editorship of Marci Hoffman, associate director at the University of…
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PowerNotes: a tool to organize your research
Northwestern Law students, faculty and staff now have access to PowerNotes. This tool helps you organize your research and keep track of your sources. Organize Research Sources: With PowerNotes, you can gather information from any online resource. You highlight the…
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Legal Analytics Tools Available Through the PLRC
Did you know that the Pritzker Legal Research Center provides access to numerous legal analytics tools? Researchers can use these tools to, among other things, (1) learn more about the writing and decision patterns of judges, (2) review the litigation…
Resource Spotlight: Course Reserves
The Reserves section is located behind the PLRC circulation desk. It contains items of varying type and origin: monographs from the PLRC, monographs from the main library and other campus libraries, periodicals, reporters, statutes, personal copies of books supplied by…
Resource Spotlight: Restatements, Principles of Law, and More ALI Treatises @ Your Fingertips
With origins dating back to 1923, The American Law Institute (ALI)’s mission is “to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to encourage and…
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Resource Spotlight: Westlaw China
Need to do some research involving Chinese law, or wish to keep up with developments in Chinese law? Please check out Westlaw China! This resource from Thomson Reuters aims to be a comprehensive database of and about Chinese law, with…
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Resource Spotlight: CQ Supreme Court Collection
Do you want to do some empirical research on the U.S. Supreme Court, but don’t know where to start? Do you want to know the seminal cases is particular fields of Supreme Court jurisprudence? For these answers and others, try…
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Resource Spotlight: 2016 American Bar Association Legal Technology Survey Report
The legal field – like medicine, education, finance, and even dating – is being transformed by technology. Major newspapers are reporting on this trend (See, e.g., Steve Lohr, A.I. is Doing Legal Work. But It Won’t Replace Lawyers, Yet, N.Y.…
Resource Spotlight: IICLE Smart Books – Your Best Friend in Illinois
Some of you may find yourself intensively researching Illinois law for the first time this summer. You may have already discovered that the Land of Lincoln in general, and the City of Big Shoulders in particular, have some legal quirks…
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Resource Spotlight: ABA Resources
The American Bar Association publishes more than 1,000 books, journals, National Institute seminar materials and other substantive works annually, leveraging the expertise of its members as authors and contributors. Practitioners today rely on the ABA’s robust body of knowledge for…
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