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Check current news sources, legal blogs, and newspapers for articles that discuss current legal issues to find a topic you are interested in researching for a writing project. For example, legal topics trending today are climate change or global warming, net neutrality, sports law, voting rights, same-sex marriage, water law, technology transfer, education, student loans, and wealth inequality.
- United States Law Week (Bloomberg Law)U.S. Law Week Summary and Analysis section can be used as a guide to current legal trends.
Try "circuit splits" under "key features" for legal issues that are being debated in the courts. - Newspaper Source PlusCheck major newspapers for stories that raise legal issues.
- Lexis - ALLNWSThe ALLNWS file is a group file containing all of the separately searchable
online legal newspaper, magazine, and newsletter files. - NewspapersThis guide describes sources for current and historical newspapers available in print, electronically, and on microfilm through the UW-Madison Libraries. These sources are categorized: Current, Historical, Local/Madison, Wisconsin, US, Alternative/Ethnic, and International