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The University Libraries

PSC 312 - Environmental Law and Policy


Librarian for Political Science : Lynda Kellam
Email: lmkellam@uncg.edu
Phone: 336-334-5251


Finding Case Law

LexisNexis Academic

"Legal Research" section includes legal news, law review articles, state and federal case law, state and federal statutory law, federal regulations, tax law and European Union law

  1. Select the "LexisNexis Academic" link above.
  2. If you are off-campus, you will be asked for your E-Spartan username and password. If you are on-campus, you will connect into LexisNexis Academic.
  3. On the red Search bar at top, select “Legal”.
  4. On the far right menu, select “Federal and State Cases”.
  5. Search by keywords, by case citation, or by case name.

FindLaw: Cases and Codes

Cornell University's Supreme Court Collection


Finding Full-Text of Scholarly Articles

Finding Scholarly Journal Articles

Academic Search Premier

Environment Complete

GreenFILE (via Academic Search Premier)

Finding Citations to More Articles

Social Science Citation Index


Finding Books

Library Catalog

Interlibrary Loan


Finding Legal Journal Articles

LexisNexis Academic

"Legal Research" section includes legal news, law review articles, state and federal case law, state and federal statutory law, federal regulations, tax law and European Union law.

  1. Select the "LexisNexis Academic" link above.
  2. If you are off-campus, you will be asked for your E-Spartan username and password. If you are on-campus, you will connect into LexisNexis Academic.
  3. On the red Search bar at top, select “Legal”.
  4. The default screen searches law review articles.
  5. Search using keywords or search by case name.
  6. To find a specific case mentioned in the text of an article, you would type:    text (Munro w/2 Socialist Workers Party)
  7. You can also search by keywords.

Finding Congressional Documents

LexisNexis Congressional Universe


The Annotated Bibliography and Bibliographic Essay

Examples of annotations from three annotated bibliographies (PDF)

Questions to consider when writing an annotation:

What is a Bibliographic Essay? (from Univeristy of Northern Iowa's Professional Writing Program).


Citing Your Sources

Library Guide to Turabian Reference Lists


Page Author: Lynda Kellam