LibGuides: Refugee Law: Researching Your Paper

General Advice on Law School Papers

This book has excellent advice on all aspects of writing a law school seminar paper:

Scholarly Writing for Law Students: Seminar Papers, Law Review Notes, and Law Review Competition Papers, 5th ed. by Elizabeth Fajans & Mary R. Falk
Call Number: KF 250 .F35 2017 Law Open Reserve & Law Reserve

ISBN: 1683282078

Publication Date: 2017

Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 are particularly useful. Chapter 2 is "Exploration: Choosing and Narrowing a Topic." Chapter 3 is "Inspiration: Finding and Developing a Thesis." (Also available from the West Academic.)

This page focuses on some especially-helpful sources for finding law review articles and other scholarship related to your paper topic. These other Zief Library research guides have additional general advice about researching papers:

Law School Papers and Law Review Notes & Comments - Research Strategies
A research guide with advice and sources for getting started on in-depth, scholarly research for law school seminar papers and similar projects.
Finding Articles
Zief Library Research guide covering tools and techniques for finding law review and other scholarly articles.

Great Overall Starting-Place

Refugees - Oxford Bibliographies Online
Recommendations from leading scholars for the most important and useful sources related to refugees. Covers legal norms, international & regional approaches, and special topics like gender-based violence, environmental refugees, etc. Commentary explains the significance of each source and links allow you to find the sources at the USF libraries or elsewhere. [On-campus link for Refugees - Oxford Bibliographies Online.]

Articles

Free Resources on Refugee Law - Oxford Univ. Press
Selected articles and book chapters from OUP addressing the major questions in refugee law.

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Covers: Who is a refugee? What rights do refugees have? What are the obligations imposed on states which refugees pass through en route to their destination of choice (transit states)? What are the obligations imposed on states in which refugees apply for asylum?
Refugee Law Reader
Includes many articles in its collection of "the complete texts of up-to-date core legal materials, instruments, and academic commentary." The Reader is well-organized by topic. Free registration is required to view some of the documents.
Law Reviews & Journals - Westlaw
Use the "advanced" search template to boost the relevance of your results.
Law Reviews and Journals - Lexis Advance
Use the "Advanced Search" template to boost the relevance of your results.

Index to Legal Periodicals & Books Retrospective
A precision article-finding tool and a helpful alternative when Lexis and Westlaw searches pull in too many irrelevant results. (For search tips, see the Cheat Sheet.)

Books

Books on Refugee Law - Zief Law Library
This link runs a keyword search for books on refugee law at the Zief Law Library. Browse the list or use the filtering options to find books for your topic.

Ignacio - USF Libraries Catalog
Use Ignacio to find books — including ebooks — and journals at USF's Gleeson and Zief Libraries. Options to search by keyword, title, author, or subject. To search only Zief materials, go to the Advanced Search tab and limit Location to values starting with Law (include Internet (Law) for ebooks).

Refugee Studies Centre - Oxford

Oxford's Refugee Studies Centre is a particularly rich source of current, wide-ranging, interdisciplinary scholarship.

Selected papers and studies are available on the Centre's web site. If you should hit a pay wall trying to view a paper, try again when you're on the USF campus, or contact a Zief Library research librarian.

Refugee Studies Center - Oxford (Home)
"The Refugee Studies Centre (RSC) was founded in 1982 and is part of the Oxford Department of International Development. Our mission is to build knowledge and understanding of forced migration in order to help improve the lives of some of the world’s most vulnerable people."
Refugee Studies Centre - Research
Information on the Centre's many multi-disciplinary projects, with links to selected papers.
Refugee Studies Centre - Publications
Recent publications by Centre scholars, and access to journals, policy briefs, and working papers sponsored by the Centre.
Alexander Betts
Betts is the Director of the Refugee Studies Centre. This personal web site has information about and, often, links to his wide-ranging, interdisciplinary scholarship