Academic Use
Bloomberg Law, Lexis, & Westlaw
By creating an account with Bloomberg Law, Lexis, or Westlaw CWSL community members agree to each company's user agreement. Each CWSL community member is responsible for reading these agreements to understand the terms under which they may use each resource. These terms include, but are not limited to, the following:
- use is authorized only while enrolled as a student at CWSL, or working as a member of faculty or staff;
- use is non-transferable (I.E. CWSL community members may not allow other people to use their Bloomberg Law, Lexis, or Westlaw accounts); and
- downloading or transferring data from these services is limited.
- Bloomberg Law This link opens in a new window
One of several legal research systems available to students and faculty that require separate accounts for each user. Search federal and state laws, free access to many dockets through PACER and various state systems, and other secondary resources.
This resource has an academic use policy. - Lexis This link opens in a new window
One of several legal research systems available to students and faculty that require separate accounts for each user.
This resource has an academic use policy. - Westlaw This link opens in a new window
One of several legal research systems available to students and faculty that require a separate account for each user. Includes access to Black's Law Dictionary and the Rutter Group California Practice Guides. In addition there is access to these two legal encyclopedias: American Jurisprudence and California Jurisprudence.
This resource has an academic use policy.
