Access to Westlaw and Lexis Nexis is limited to J.D. students only. The resources highlighted below are available to both M.A. in Law and B.A. in Law students as well as to students in other RU degree programs. If you teach a legal research-related class and would like additional information, please contact Professor Magee.
Provides access to legal research materials, including all U.S. federal and state case law and statutes and Shepard's updating service. Includes administrative codes and regulations. Secondary sources include law reviews and journals, as well as legal news coverage. Also includes business, criminal justice, and political science resources.
HeinOnline is a premiere legal research platform that includes case law, statutory materials, regulations, government publications, treaties and agreements, more than 3,200 scholarly legal journals, classical legal volumes, and more. Although U.S. law is the focus, the platform also includes international and foreign materials. Collections are organized into “Libraries.” including the flagship “Law Journal Library.” HeinOnline is ideal for cite-check because of its fully searchable, image-based format.
ProQuest legislative histories include the full text of the public law itself, all versions of related bills, law-specific Congressional Record excerpts, committee hearings, reports, and prints. Also included are presidential signing statements, CRS reports, and miscellaneous congressional publications. Legislative histories are sometimes used by courts, lawyers, or researchers to discover the “legislative intent” behind a specific law.
Comprehensive collection of Supreme Court documents. Includes full opinions from Supreme Court argued cases, including per curiam decisions, dockets, oral arguments, joint appendices and amicus briefs.
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Subject indexing allows researchers to assess specific cases and groups of cases. Users can also search by organization or personal names, including names of petitioners, respondents and attorneys. Amicus brief indexing allows researchers to retrieve all briefs submitted by a single organization or a Member of Congress.
Designed for law students, the Aspen Learning Library is a digital study aid collection with full-text search, note-taking, and highlighting capabilities, audio recordings, and digital media. Series include: Examples & Explanations, Glannon Guides, Emanuels, Casenote Legal Briefs, and more.
The Law Library now provides BriefCatch to the entire Regent University community!
This award-winning product, which is widely used by U.S. courts and law firms, is a bit like Grammarly for lawyers. Designed to help users improve legal writing skills, BriefCatch analyzes legal documents and leverages insights from leading legal minds to offer real-time editing suggestions, examples from top lawyers and judges, analytical draft scores, and detailed narrative reports.
Instructions for installing BriefCatch are available here.