• Westlaw Campus - "Westlaw Campus is a Web-based legal research tool for undergraduate and graduate students who need to research law-related issues."
  Subject area(s): Social Sciences.

Sample Articles Available

• American Law Reports: Topical approach, both federal and state-by-state comparisons - select "American Law Reports" and type name of article in search box.

  Discrimination Against Pregnant Employee as Violation of State Fair Employment Laws,
  99 A.L.R.5th 1

  Sufficiency of Evidence to Establish Alien's Well-Founded Fear of Persecution Entitling Alien to Status of Refugee Under s101(a)(42)(A) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (8 U.S.C.A. s1101(a)(42)(A))--Alleged Persecution in European and Asian Nations, 182 A.L.R. Fed. 147

  When is Work Environment Intimidating, Hostile or Offensive, so as to Constitute Sexual Harassment Under State Law, 93 A.L.R.5th 4

• Law Reviews : examples - select "Journals and Law Reviews" and "all journals and law reviews " from the drop down menu, and type name of article in search box to locate examples below. Put title in quotes " "

  15 Hastings Women's L.J. 239
  Hastings Women's Law Journal Summer 2004 Note: STONING SINGLE NIGERIAN MOTHERS FOR ADULTERY: APPLYING FEMINIST THEORY TO AN ANALYSIS OF GENDER DISCRIMINATION IN INTERNATIONAL LAW Sarah Crutcher

  11 Am. U. J. Gender Soc. Pol'y & L. 749
  American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law 2003 Symposium THE POTENTIAL AND CHALLENGES OF TRANSNATIONAL LITIGATION FOR FEMINISTS CONCERNED ABOUT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HERE AND ABROAD Merle H. Weiner

  28 Law & Soc. Inquiry 1
  Law and Social Inquiry Winter 2003 Articles VICTORIOUS TRANSSEXUALS IN THE COURTROOM: A CHALLENGE FOR FEMINIST LEGAL THEORY Anna Kirkland

  12 Tulsa J. Comp. & Int'l L. 481
  Tulsa Journal of Comparative and International Law Spring 2005 Comment ESTABLISHING THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN GLOBALLY: HAS THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON THE ELIMINATION OF ALL FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN MADE A DIFFERENCE? Rebecca L. Hillock

   

• Lexis-Nexis Academic - Formerly known as Lexis Nexis Academic Universe, this searchable full-text database is divided into five major content areas: News, Business, Legal Research, Medical Research, and Reference. The news section contains the text of many regional, national, and international newspapers and other news sources. The business section contains information on companies, business news, industries, and accounting. The legal section contains extensive information on state and federal case law as well as law reviews and legal news. The reference materials include country profiles, polls and surveys, and biographies. The medical section indexes medical journals and health news sources.
  Subject area(s): ['General Subjects', 'Humanities', 'Science and Engineering', 'Social Sciences']. Coverage varies depending on journal or news source.

Sample Articles Available

Hastings College of the Law Hastings Women's Law Journal, Summer, 1999, 10 Hastings Women's L.J. 347, 11744 words, A Comparative Analysis of Women's Issues: Toward a Contextualized Methodology, Antoinette Sedillo Lopez

Asian Law Journal Asian Law Journal , May, 1997, 4 Asian L.J. 71, 14826 words, Model Minority, Yellow Peril: Functions of "Foreignness" in the Construction of Asian American Legal Identity, Natsu Taylor Saito

Tulane Journal of International and Comparative Law, Spring, 2003, 11 Tul. J. Int'l & Comp. L. 21, 12526 words, Silent Witness: Discrimination Against Women in the Pakistani Law of Evidence, Perry S. Smith

Harvard Women's Law Journal, Spring, 2003, 26 Harv. Women's L.J. 163, 29652 words, The Quiet Revolution: Japanese Women Working around the Law, Robbi Louise Miller

Golden Gate University Golden Gate University, Spring, 1996, 26 Golden Gate U.L. Rev. 413, 11121 words, Comment: The Claims of Women of Color under Title VII: The Interaction of Race and Gender, Mary Elizabeth Powell

Boston College Third World Law Journal , Fall, 1998, 19 B.C. Third World L.J. 349, 20435 words, Out of the Shadow: Marking Intersections in and between Asian Pacific American Critical Legal Scholarship and Latina/o Critical Legal Theory, Elizabeth M. Iglesias

Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems, Inc. Columbia University School of Law, Summer, 2000, 33 Colum. J.L. & Soc. Probs. 393, 19826 words, Restricting the Rights of Poor Mothers: An International Human Rights Critique of "Workfare", Shruti Rana

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• CWI (Contemporary Women's Issues) - global information about women, full-text, multidisciplinary.

Sample Articles Available

Bohmer, Carol Brandt, Jennifer Bronson, Denise Hartnett. Domestic violence law reforms: reactions from the trenches.
Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare, 29 (3): 71(17), September 2002.

Palmer, Barbara. Women in the American judiciary: their influence and impact.
Women & Politics, 23 (3): 89(11), July 2002.

Levesque, Roger JR. The roles and rules of law in sexual development.
Journal of Sex Research (The), 39 (1): 46(5), February 2002.

• Women's Studies International - contains citations and abstracts of historical and current research in Women's Studies with a foucs on health and international issues.

Sample Articles Available

Mojab, Shahrzad, "Honor killing":culture, politics and theory.
Middle East Women's Studies Review, Vol. 17(1/2); Spring/Summer; 2002

Giner-Sorolla, Roger; Chaiken, Shelly; Lutz, Stacey. Validity beliefs and ideology can influence legal case judgments differently.
Law and Human Behavior, 26(5): pp. 507-26; 2002 October ISSN: 0147-7307

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• Historical Abstracts OR America History and Life - Contains citations and abstracts for works covering the history of the world from 1450 to the present. Historical coverage of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. Contains citations and abstracts for articles, book and media reviews, and dissertations. The database also includes CLIO Notes, which guides the user through chronologies and brief summaries of significant events and themes in American history.
  Subject area(s): ['Humanities', 'Social Sciences']. Covers: Articles written 1964 - present.
  

• Gender Watch - GenderWatch is a full text database of scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, pamphlets, conference proceedings, and government reports that focus on the impact of gender, men, and women across disciplines. From Proquest.
  Subject area(s): ['Humanities', 'Social Sciences']. Coverage varies, 1970 - present.
  

Sample Articles Available

Amoah, Jewel. Narrative: The Road to Black Feminist Theory. Berkeley Women's Law Journal, 1/31/1997

Fechner, Holly B. Three Stories Of Prostitution In The West: Prostitutes' Groups, Law and Feminist "Truth." Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, 1/31/1994

Van Praagh, Shauna. Stories In Law School: An Essay On Language, Participation, And The Power Of Legal Education. Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, 1/31/1992

Weiss, Shana. How We Constructed "The Jury": A Look at Narrative Storytelling. Berkeley Women's Law Journal, 1/31/1997

 

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• Project Muse - This searchable database contains online access to the full-text of over 100 scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. Subject area(s): ['Art and Art History', 'Humanities', 'Science and Engineering', 'Social Sciences']. Coverage varies.
  

Sample Articles Available

Schur, Richard. Critical Race Theory and the Limits of Auto/Biography: Reading Patricia Williams's The Alchemy of Race and Rights Through/Against Postcolonial Theory.
Biography - Volume 25, Number 3, Summer 2002, pp. 455-476

Picart, Caroline Joan. Rhetorically Reconfiguring Victimhood and Agency: The Violence Against Women Act's Civil Rights Clause.
Rhetoric & Public Affairs - Volume 6, Number 1, Spring 2003, pp. 97-125

Zackodnik, Teresa. Fixing the Color Line: The Mulatto, Southern Courts, and Racial Identity.
American Quarterly - Volume 53, Number 3, September 2001, pp. 420-451

 

• CQ Supreme Court Collection - Searchable, full text database of historical analysis with updates and commentary of Supreme Court decisions, biographies of Supreme Court justices, Supreme Court institutional history, and the U.S. Constitution. From publishers of "Congressional Quarterly Weekly."
  Subject area(s): ['General Subjects', 'Social Sciences'].

• CQ Researcher - This reference source explores "hot" issues in the news in depth. Topics range from social and political issues to environment, health, education and science and technology. Each report is full-text and contains charts, graphs and sidebar articles, a pro-con feature, a chronology, lengthy bibliographies and a list of contacts. Also known as "Congressional Quarterly Researcher."
  Subject area(s): General Subjects. Covers: 1991 - present.