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How to Use this Guide
This guide is designed for students who would like to write a long(er) research paper and are looking for ideas on how to get started and find a topic. This guide is not meant to include all subject areas of the law, but provides some good general starting points for a large number of topics.
If you want to know what's hot in the legal world today, check out some of the blogs. Academic journals may take longer to be published, but you will want to check out such literature before embarking on writing your own paper to be sure that what you write adds something "new" to the field of law. In addition, current awareness sources can provide you with ideas, as well as keep you up to date once you've picked your topic and are involved in the research and writing of your paper.
Also, keep in mind that many databases which are highlighted in this guide include options that allow you to set up alerts or what is known as "RSS feeds" which can alert you to new results that fit your search terms, as they are added to the database.
Quick Links
- Citation Linker
Use this link when you have a citation to a journal article (more than just the journal's name.) - Harvard E-Journals Use this link when you want to find out if any library in Harvard has a journal in online format.
- Harvard E-Resources Use this link to find out if any Harvard library has access to a particular database. You can search by the title of the database if you know it, or can look for them by subject (i.e., history, political science, gender or regional studies), or by keyword.
- Hollis ClassicUse this link to search and see whether any of the Harvard libraries own a particular item such as a journal, book, or DVD, etc. Hollis Classic will allow you to search our Moody (foreign law collection), and also to use subject terms through the Expanded Search Screen.
- Hein Online This link takes you to the main libraries page of Hein Online, where you can see all of the libraries included.
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Tips on Finding a Faculty Advisor
If you are an LLM who will be writing the long paper, you will need to find a faculty advisor. To see what Harvard Law Faculty have written about in the past, and to learn about their areas of interest, be sure to check out the Faculty Bibliography.
In case you already have an idea of who you want to approach to be your advisor, you can use the Faculty Directory to reach each faculty member's individual page, which includes a list of his/her publications.
In addition, you can perform an "author search" on legal periodical indexes such as LegalTrac, to find out what each faculty member has written (in case there is any lag time in their bibliograhy list being updated.) For more information on LegalTrac, and legal periodical indexes, see the "What are the academic journals discussing" tab on this guide.
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