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Legal Research: International Law: Research in Scholarly Journals

Use the following methods to locate and read journal articles:

To broadly search for articles in Pitt's database subscriptions, you can type your search terms into the PittCat+ search box on the University Library System's site. Similarly, you can use advanced search engine techniques in Google Scholar to look for journal articles. The UN's Peace Palace Library and the European Commission's Library list individual journal articles in their catalogs. Search by key words or author names in both of those catalogs. If you don't find the item at Pitt, we will obtain it through Interlibrary Loan. Note that scholarly commentary from public policy think tanks is also useful in legal research.

To be as thorough as possible, conduct specialized searches in all of these individual journal database subscriptions:

  • Oxford Journals Online - good variety of international law articles with European perspective.
  • Cambridge Electronic Journals - wide assortment of high quality international law articles.
  • Ingenta Connect - lots of European law and human rights journals including Brill publications.
  • Ethnic News Watch - news plus scholarly writing about ethnic groups' legal issues.
  • Hein Online - PDF versions of hundreds of U.S. and foreign law journals.
  • SpringerLink - PDF versions of articles and chapters from Europe, published by Springer.
  • Lexis - full-text of journals published by law schools and the Lexis family of publishers.
  • Westlaw - full-text of journals published by law schools and the West family of publishers.