Are you writing a research paper this semester? Do you want some help? Come join…
About this time of year we begin getting requests for help developing topics for papers. While we have several different resources that can be helpful, one that I like to show first is BNA. BNA (now Bloomberg BNA) produces a number of daily and weekly reports on cutting edge topics in a variety of areas of the law. These publications are a great place to go to find recent court cases or legislation in areas such as bankruptcy, employment discrimination, health law, and white collar crime to name a few. Another popular BNA resource is United States Law Week, which has a feature detailing recent circuit splits. Email alerts are available for many BNA resources so you can keep up to date with what’s going on. A list (with links) to all the BNA material the law library subscribes to is available here.