Journals

To supplement your textbooks, you are likely to be referred to articles in legal journals. Most of these will deal with particular topics, such as criminal law or property law (such as the Criminal Law Review and the Convey-ancer) in greater detail than is possible within textbooks.

One particularly useful section of many journals contains short case notes. Even in the most academically heavyweight journals, these are seldom more than three or four pages long, and often run to no more than a page or two. These case notes can be an excellent introduction to some of the more complex recent developments in the law. Additionally, by referring to back numbers, you can see how cases which are now accepted as leading authorities were viewed at the time when they were decided.