Specialized legal and mass media encyclopedias for introductions or overviews on a topic.
Access to U.S. Supreme Court opinions and analyses, and to court sites.
Books and similar materials at W&L and elsewhere.
Indexes to articles in journals, magazines, and newspapers.
Help with MLA, Chicago, and other citation styles, as well as advice on avoiding plagiarism, is available here.
If you need some help with this research, you can contact Senior Reference Librarian Dick Grefe.