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Legal Periodicals

Includes journal and conference papers and scholarly articles available anywhere on the Internet. Also searches university digital repositories.

Provides abstracts and full-text PDFs for thousands of scholarly papers, including working papers and pre-publication versions of legal journal articles. Includes Research Paper Series and subject browse function.

Searches the full text of articles from more than 400 open access law journals (list available at link)

Gateway site of links to webpages maintained by law reviews and similar publications, including e-journals. Organized alphabetically by title. 

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