Month: July 2022

W&L Law Library is pleased to announce a new subscription to HeinOnline for all Washington and Lee University alumni. Graduates of the Law School, as well as W&L’s undergraduate schools, are eligible for access at no cost.

The special subscription includes full access to HeinOnline’s Law Journal Library, a collection of over 3,000 fully searchable scholarly and professional journals, browsable or downloadable in PDF and dating back to their first issue ever published. The one-of-a-kind database spans more than 42 million pages and 40 disciplines.

Access to the journals is complemented by Fastcase, a leading next-generation legal research service with tools to make case law research faster than ever: Case citations within articles are highlighted and hyperlinked to the judicial opinion in Fastcase. Users can also look up a case directly in Fastcase with HeinOnline’s citation tools.

HeinOnline is the latest of several online research databases that the W&L University Library and Law Library offer for alumni, including JSTOR and Project MUSE. All are accessible through the the Colonnade Connections / Friends of the Library webpage. To create a Colonnade Connections account, register online or contact the W&L Office of Alumni Engagement.

For more information about the HeinOnline Law Journal Library, see their Quick Reference Guide and introductory YouTube video. Also feel free to reach out to a librarian at LawRef@wlu.edu for guidance or research assistance.

The 2021 Washington and Lee Law Journal Rankings are now available at go.wlu.edu/lawjournals.

Maintained by the W&L Law Library, the Rankings are a world-recognized resource for identifying and comparing law journals by subject, country of publication, or rank across several categories relevant to scholars and publishers.

Data for 2021 includes the top 400 U.S.-published law journals and the top 100 law journals published outside the United States, based on citation counts and publication statistics for a 2017-2021 survey period.

New Rankings are released annually based on data up through the preceding calendar year. Historical data from the 1996-2003 to 2016-2020 survey periods remains accessible on the site for reference and comparison.

For more information about W&L Law Journal Rankings, please visit the the How to Use and Methodology pages of the site. Questions and comments are welcome at LawJournalRankings@wlu.edu.