Jamail Center for Legal Research
Tarlton Law Library

Legal resources online

• Databases
  Legal and non-legal research databases such as Hein Online and JSTOR
• Legal research on the internet
  An annotated list of free legal sources divided into categories –Texas, other states, Federal, foreign and international
• Empirical resources
  A compilation of webpages which link to readily available statistics and/or data sets
• U.S. Supreme Court resources
  Tools for Supreme Court research, including brief summaries of recent opinions and certs granted

Current literature awareness databases

Created and maintained by Tarlton librarians, these databases provide information about current articles on various legal topics. Subscribe to RSS feeds for automatic updates on each topic.

• Actual innocence
• Capital punishment
• Copyright
• Domestic violence
• Patent
• Trademark

Tarlton online collections

Resources developed from Tarlton's special collections, focused on Texas legal history and the law in popular culture.

• Texas Constitutions
• Justices of Texas
• Tom Clark papers
• Hopwood
• Law in Popular Culture (LPOP)

Research guides

A good starting point for conducting your own research or improving your research skills.

Basic "How-to" guides

• Finding a case
• Finding a statute
• Finding a regulation
• Finding Texas law

Subject-specific guides and bibliographies

• Aztec and Mayan law
• CISG research guide
• European Union law
• Human rights protection
• International Trade Law (WTO & NAFTA)
• Mexico law research guide
• Resources for public interest groups
• Restatements of the law
• Self-help materials
• Texas death penalty law
• Treaty research

Suggested Guides for Further Research

Many law school libraries have compiled excellent research guides on specific topics which are available on their websites. We have listed some of them here. As with any internet resource, be sure to check the date guides were last updated and whether there have been any subsequent changes.

• Cornell Law Library
• Cornell Legal Information Institute
• Georgetown Law Library
• Harvard Law Library
• Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale Law School