Scholarly Research for Law Students

Current Awareness

Use these resources to keep aware of any recent developments in the area that you are researching.

SmartCILP: Journal Article Updates

SmartCILP is part of HeinOnline. It provides weekly email listings of all the articles that have been published in a selected area or selected areas. You must have a MyHein account to use SmartCILP. You can get alerts based on broad groups or more specific subheadings.

More information is available from the CILP Research Guide.

Here are the broad groups:

Banking and Finance
Criminal Law and Procedure
Health Care
Bankruptcy
Environmental Law
International and Comparative Law
Civil Practice and Procedure
Estate Planning and Probate
Labor and Employment
Civil Rights
Family Law
Taxation
Corporate and Securities
Government and Politics
Technology

Here is a complete list of over 100 of the more specific subheadings:

Administrative Law	Education Law	Jurisprudence	Religion
Admiralty	Elder Law	Juveniles	Remedies
Agriculture Law	Elections and Voting	Labor Law	Reproduction
Air and Space Law	Employment Practice	Land Use	Retirement Security
Animal Law	Energy and Utilities Law	Law and Society	Science and Technology
Arts and Entertainment	Environmental Law	Law Enforcement	Second Amendment
Banking and Finance	Estates and Trusts	Law of the Sea	Secured Transactions
Bankruptcy Law	Evidence	Legal Analysis and Writing	Securities Law
Biography	First Amendment	Legal Education	Sentencing and Punishment
Business Organizations	Food and Drug Law	Legal History	Sex Crimes
Civil Law	Fourteenth Amendment	Legal Profession	Sexual Orientation
Civil Rights, Generally	Gaming	Legal Research and Libraries	Social Welfare
Commercial Law	Gender	Legislation	Sports
Communications Law	Government Contracts	Medical Jurisprudence	State and Local Government Law
Comparative and Foreign Law	Health Law and Policy	Military, War, and Peace	Supreme Court of the United States
Conflict of Laws	Housing Law	Motor Vehicles	Tax Policy
Constitutional Law, Generally	Human Rights Law	Natural Resources Law	Taxation—Federal
Consumer Protection Law	Immigration Law	Nonprofit Organizations	Taxation—Federal Estate and Gift
Contracts	Indigenous Law	Oil, Gas, and Mineral Law	Taxation—State and Local
Courts	Information Privacy	Politics	Taxation—Transnational
Criminal Law and Procedure	Insurance Law	Practice and Procedure	Terrorism
Disability Law	Intellectual Property Law	President/Executive Department	Torts
Disaster Law	International Law	Professional Ethics	Trade Regulation
Dispute Resolution	International Trade	Property—Personal and Real	Transportation Law
Domestic Relations	Judges	Psychology and Psychiatry	Water Law
Economics	Jurisdiction	Race and Ethnicity	Workers' Compensation Law

Alerts

You can set up a variety of alerts in Lexis+, Westlaw, HeinOnline, and Google Scholar. You can get an alert anytime new materials are added to the database that match a set search. You can also get an alert any time the citation information changes an item, such as an addition to Shepard's or KeyCite for a given case.