Legal Research for Law Students: Your First Cite Check & Research Paper

Books

Use Virgo, the U.Va. Libraries catalog, to find materials here at U.Va.

Book not at UVA?

Make an interlibrary loan request for books & PDFs of book chapters and articles. Indicate on the form that your request is for a Law cite check.

Book at another UVA Library?

Our Student Delivery Service picks up books, journal volumes, and microfilm from UVA libraries and delivers them here for you.

Make a SDS request

Congressional Documents

ProQuest Congressional

Our most comprehensive source for committee reports and hearings, the Congressional Record, and bills.

Search PQ Congressional

HeinOnline Congressional Record & predecessors, 1789 to present

Search the Cong. Rec. on HeinOnline

FDSys

Reports, 1995 to present; Hearings, 1985 to present; Bills, 1993 to present

Go to FDSys

Cases, U.S. Code, & Regulations

HeinOnline Supreme Court cases, U.S. Code, Statutes-at-Large, CFR, Federal Register

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Westlaw for Cases

Search Westlaw (password required)

Newspapers & Journal Articles

Old news articles

ProQuest Historical Newspapers has the Chicago Tribune (149-1988), LA Times (1881-1988), NY Times (1851-2008), Wall Street Journal (1889-1994), and Washington Post (1877-1995).

Search PQ Historical Newspapers

Recent news articles

Alderman has NY Times & Washington Post on microform; Darden has WSJ. Use our Journal Finder to locate other newspapers at U.Va.

Go to U.Va. Libraries Newspaper Guide

Journal articles

HeinOnline has PDFs of law journal articles. Use our Journal Finder to locate non-law journals
Go to Journal Finder to search by journal title or article citation