A periodical intended for legal practitioners. Bar journal articles are typically brief with very few footnotes.

A proposed law presented to a legislature by a member of that legislature.

See authority.

Black's Law Dictionary, a dictionary of legal terms.

An informal term indicating the basic principles of law generally accepted by the  courts and/or embodied in the statutes of a particular jurisdiction.

Also known as A Uniform System of Citation, the Bluebook is the style manual that explains how to cite legal documents. To "bluebook" an article is to check it for conformity to the standards explained in the Bluebook.

A form of search strategy used in databases, such as Westlaw and LexisNexis. In a Boolean search, connectors such as AND, OR, and NOT are used to construct a complex search command. The command “fungible and gasoline” for example, retrieves documents in which the term fungible and the term gasoline both appear. Compare with natural language.

1. A written pleading submitted to a court in which a party summarizes the facts of the case and presents legal authority in support of his position. 2. A summary of a case in which the major elements of the case (parties, history, holding, and rationale) are summarized. Usually prepared by law students after reading an opinion for class.