Returning students will be happy to see that there are now shortcuts to both the Web version of the catalog and the older Telnet version at the top of the first page of the catalog. LegalTrac is a searchable database of Case Studies, Government Regulations, Practice of Law, Statutes, Taxation and International Law. You can acce ss all major law reviews, and specialty law and bar association journals written between 1980 and Sep 1998. Please take a look at all the new information to be found at your f ingertips. Legal researchers often find a periodical article one of the most useful sources for beginning a research project.
Legal periodicals fall into several easily identified categories.
At one extreme are legal newspapers, such as The National Law Journal and North Carolina Lawyers Weekly , with many short articles and editorials written by practicing lawyers and brief descriptions of cases deemed important by the publishers of the newspaper. The other end of the spectrum is represented by the law review, containing lengthy articles, heavily footnoted and usually written by an academic legal scholar. Examples include North Carolina Law Review and Marquette Sports L aw Journal. Between the two extremes one finds commercial legal journals, bar publications and legal newsletters. And finally there are legal newsletters, which tend to be very practice oriented and are most often used as a way of identifying the signals or indicators of legal change.