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Constitutional Law (U.S.): Getting Started

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Introduction

Constitutional law is often a challenging area to research, due to the seemingly endless number of cases that courts issue on constitutional law issues. This guide is intended to assist researchers in locating primary and secondary materials relating to U.S. and state constitutional law in the University of Iowa Law Library’s collections.

General Advice: To simplify constitutional law research, use secondary authority or study aids, such as treatises, hornbooks, or law review articles, to identify the "big" cases. You can also use the case annotations in the U.S. annotated codes' Constitution volumes to identify cases on specific issues. Once you have a relevant case, link into other relevant cases through the West topics and key numbers, the Lexis More Like This Headnote or Search by Topic features, and/or KeyCite and Shepard's.

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