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SJD Research Tips

The Judge Ben C Green Law Library's reference librarians provide research tips, based on their decades of legal research experience.

Lexis and Westlaw -- secondary sources

To obtain better results from "law reviews and journals":

- while searching all law review and law journal content, try the ATLEAST# command -- results will only include law journal/review articles that mention that word or phrase at least that many times or more.

Sample search: ATLEAST25("war crime") AND ATLEAST20("command rsponsibility") -- no blank spaces and you can adjust the #s. 

or

- pick topical law journal options (such as criminal law, intellectual property, international law)