New Empirical Legal Studies Db

Not officially launched, but now live is the fabulous Empirical Legal Studies Bibliography. A joint product of UCLA and Cornell law schools (with much of the indexing and literature review to create the database done by librarians at those two schools, namely Matt Morrison, Jill Fukunaga, and June Kim), users can search for ELS articles by author, title, subject, or year.  For those of us who have grappled with requests for ELS articles in a particular subject, we know how difficult these projects can be.  This new product is much needed and provides an important service in this expanding area of legal scholarship. 

Background and more information about the project:

This database grew out of a conversation between Ted Eisenberg and Joe Doherty at the 2006 AALS meeting. The plan was to create an annual bibliography for publication in JELS; in the process it evolved into this online database. The project was made possible by the support of Dean Mike Schill of UCLA Law, and by the hard work of Matt Morrison of the Cornell Law Library, Jill Fukunaga and June Kim of the UCLA Law Library, and many research assistants. Please contact Joe Doherty (doherty@law.ucla.edu) to report errors, omissions and suggestions, and to express your interest in helping us extend the database back to 2000.

Kudos!  [JJ]