Law Reviews are scholarly legal publications published by law schools or other organizations. Examples here at UC are the University of Cincinnati Law Review, Immigration and Naturalization Law Review, Intellectual Property & Computer Law Journal, and Human Rights Quarterly.
Law reviews can be great sources of information because they can give good policy arguments, broad background information, focus in on narrow topics, as well as cover very cutting edge and controversial topics.
Other types of periodicals that you will come across include legal magazines, newspapers, and newsletters. These are usually more practitioner oriented. They give practical information on the practice of law and serve as current awareness functions.
Due to subscription and licensing agreements, certain library resources are restricted to UC faculty, staff, and currently enrolled students. Some of these databases are available to the entire University of Cincinnati community. Others are restricted to the College of Law.
Note that these are indexes, not full-text sources. The index will give you the citation to an article which you would then need to retrieve if you wanted to review the full-text. There may be some overlap in coverage by the indexes but each covers some periodicals that the others do not.
Periodicals & Indexes (45 min.)
Available to Law Students only (see a reference librarian if you do not have a CALI activation code).
