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Research to Write Scholarly Legal or Interdisciplinary Papers

Use this guide to help with the research process for seminar papers or to write an article for publication in a scholarly journal. This guide is inspired by the similarly named one produced by Caitlin Hunter and the Law Librarians at UCLA Law School

Find Books on your Topic 

UC Law SF Library offers extensive resources for your research, including print & e-books. If you do not see the books that you need, you can borrow books from other institutions via interlibrary loans.

Here are some searches that you may want to try using in various databases. Following the links takes you to that search in the UC Law SF catalog.  Use filters to refine your search:

You can use these same subject headings to search for books in:

Or run key word searches in the full text of books in:

Google Book Search

If you find a book on Google Books or elsewhere and you want to know if we have it in the library, check the

If you find a book that you want to read, but it is not in our library, you can place an Interlibrary Loan. See: