Legal Research: Pennsylvania

Periodicals

The seven Pennsylvania law schools produce an assortment of publications. (see list below) They all produce one all purpose law review, each of which through the years has dealt with a number of Pennsylvania topics. The Villanova Law Review does an annual survey of notable Third Circuit decisions and the Temple Law Quarterly does the same for Pennsylvania Supreme Court decisions. Most of these publications have annual indexes in the back of each completed volume. They are also indexed in the Index to Legal Periodicals and the Current law Index along with their spinoff products.

Dickinson Journal of Environmental Law and Policy

Dickinson Journal of International Law

Dickinson Law Review

Duquesne Law Review

Journal of Law and Commerce (Univ. of Pgh.)

Temple Environmental Law and Technology Journal

Temple International and Comparative Law Journal

Temple Law Quarterly

Temple Political and Civil Rights Law REview

University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Business Law

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law

University of Pennsylvania Law Review

University of Pittsburgh Law Review

Villanova Environmental Law Review

Villanova Law Review

The Pennsylvania Bar Association publishes two periodicals and one newspaper worthy of note. The Pennsylvania Lawyer is a monthly bar magazine filled with practical articles often of the how-to variety. One of the more useful aspects of the Pennsylvania Bar Association Quarterly is its summation of new developments in various broad areas of Pennsylvania law. This journal also contains scholarly articles of topical interest. The Pennsylvania Bar News is a biweekly newspaper that has several important features. Each issue includes a listing and brief summary of recent state and local federal court decisions. There are articles highlighting different areas of law and practice, and from time to time they publish a summary of state ethics opinions.

The Pennsylvania Law Weekly, formerly the Pennsylvania Law Journal Reporter, is a weekly newspaper that serves a couple of functions. Besides the news articles concerning people or law firms, the newspaper also publishes summations of recent decisions from the PA trial courts and the Pa and federal appellate courts, details on notable awards and settlements, a calendar of events, bar news, and classified section peppered with adds listing forensic and other types of experts. Every January and July they publish an index to the court decisions summarized over the previous six months.