SAGES - Legal Resources

Unfortunately, our contracts only allow currently-affiliated CWRU Law faculty, law students, and law staff may use Lexis and Westlaw.

Here are the best options for non-law CWRU patrons.

DATABASES (see DATABASE page)

NexisUni -- state and federal court opinions, law review articles, selected administrative regulations/rules, maybe some public policy documents

HeinOnline -- law review articles, free federal government documents, such as U.S. Supreme Court opinions, Federal Regulations (Code of Federal Regulations), and United Nations documents

ProQuest Databases

• Legislative Insight
  • federal legislative materials, including compiled federal legislative histories
• Regulatory Insight
  • federal regulatory information -- administrative rules/regulations
• Congressional
  • federal congressional documents, including the U.S. Serial Set
• Congressional Hearings
  • federal Congressional hearings
• Supreme Court Insight (U.S. Supreme Court Opinions)

OhioLINK Research Databases

• Legal Collection: legal periodicals
• Index to Legal Periodicals and Books: law review articles 

Print Resources (in Library Use at the Law Library)

Federal Annotated Codes/Statutes  -- federal statutes/ legislation includes related court opinions and secondary sources

• United States Code Annotated (first floor)
• United States Code Service (third floor)

Ohio Revised Code Annotated (Baldwin's and Page's -- first floor) -- state statutes/legislation, including related court opinions and secondary sources

Treatises (a specialized type of secondary source --  writings about topical areas of law by an expert, with reference to primary law sources, related context, and regular updates)

• CAVEAT: Check the online catalog link to see how current the treatise is before coming to the law library -- we may not keep the print version up to date.