This Summer many of you will be challenged to research and write on unfamiliar legal issues. 
You want to impress your supervisors, but you do not know where to begin or how to best approach the problem. The Brooklyn Law School Library’s research guides are a good place to start. The resources in the guides are curated by librarians to specifically support the subject surveyed. Listed below are a few guides that can help you tackle your assignments. For the complete list of the 49 research guides, go to the url: guides.brooklaw.edu.
Also, do not forget to reach out to BLS librarians for additional help. You can email us at askthelibrary@brooklaw.edu, call us at 718-780-7567, text us at 718-734-2432, or chat with us using a widget on the Library’s home page. We are here all summer.
New York State Legislative History Research: This guide is intended to help researchers locate print and online sources for New York State Legislative History Research.
New York Civil Litigation Research Guide: This guide’s purpose is to aid practitioners and law students in researching New York civil practice. The guide identifies key civil practice resources, and provides search tips and strategies.
New York Criminal Procedure Research Guide: This research guide is intended to provide users with links to a variety of resources on New York State and Federal Criminal Procedure. These sources cover a wide range of topics.
Federal Legislative History Research Guide: This research guide is intended to help researchers locate print and online sources for Federal Legislative History.
Form Books: In print and online: This is a guide to form books in print and online in the BLS Library collection. Legal forms are templates that attorneys use in drafting documents specific to the needs of their clients or are forms required to be used by a court or governmental agency. Forms are found online in various databases, and in print in collections of form books.
Intellectual Property Law Primer: This guide will help you research Intellectual Property law which includes Patents, Trademarks and Copyright. It will focus on materials available in the Brooklyn Law School library, including books, journals, and databases, in print and electronic format. Access to some of these materials may require your BLS user name and password, as well as Lexis or Westlaw ID and passwords.
