How to Search for Journals and Law Reviews
Click on the “Search” tab. Click on the “Legal” tab underneath “Search.”
Scroll down until you see “Secondary Legal” in the right column. Underneath “Secondary Legal,” find the blue hyperlinked “Law Reviews and Journals” and click on it.
On the next page, you will see a short list of databases to choose from. We recommend clicking on the text “US Law Reviews and Journals, Combined.” This will lead you to a search page that will search within a database of all US law reviews and journals. To search across several databases, you can check the boxes to the left of the text and then click the red button “Combine Sources” on the top right of the page.
Now you are ready to run a search. On the search page, choose either "natural language" or "terms and connectors." Type your search terms and click “Search.” For more information about formulating successful searches, click here.
There are innumerable law review and journal articles published in the United States. Running a search through the text of all of these articles may produce too many results, no matter how well you tailor your search. Consequently, you may want to limit the scope of your search to searching the titles of articles.
- You can do this on the search page under the “Restrict by Document Segment” section. Click on the down arrow and select “TITLE” to restrict your search to article titles.
- Next to the “TITLE” box, enter your search query, then click Add.
This will add your title search to the main search query box. Click “Search.”
Lexis will provide you with a list of search results. For more information about reading and navigating search results, click here.
