Social Sciences Library

A good encyclopedia article or a law journal can help you find the most important cases on your topic

• Gale Virtual Reference Library -- a collection of encyclopedias, including several related to the law.   Use the Advanced Search page and limit the subject area to law.
  
• Index to Legal Periodicals -- The best index to Law Review articles.  Many articles are full text.
  
• Legal Trac -- another index to periodicals.  Overlaps with the Index to Legal Periodicals.  Has more news items.
• LexisNexis Academic -- Law Reviews full text with links to cases

Supreme Court Resources

• Supreme Court Yearbook. -- Summaries of Supreme Court cases in understandable

• LexisNexis Academic -- full text of cases.   Click on the tab marked "Legal"
  
• Westlaw Campus.
• Free on the Web
  
• through the Legal Information Institute at Cornell
• FindLaw for Professionals