The Restatements of the Law of Contracts are two of the most well-recognized and frequently-cited legal treatises in American law, and are heavily-cited non-binding authority in the area of contracts and commercial transactions.

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Most of the Law Library's books and treatises relating to Contract Law are located on the 1st Floor in the KF 801-839, Use InfoHawk+, the Law Library's online catalog, to search for relevant materials (see tutorial below).

Major contract law books and treatises include:

Law journal articles may be found using an index to legal periodical literature. Three of the most widely used law journal indexes are the Index to Legal Periodicals, the Legal Scholarship Network, and LegalTrac. Each database provides multiple fields to search, including title, author, subject and keyword.

Once you have identified potentially relevant articles, use the print journal, Hein Online, JSTOR or another full-text database to retrieve the article(s). HeinOnline and JSTOR provide access to legal and non-legal journal literature, respectively.  Both provide .PDF versions of articles, as well as search functionality.  They are particularly useful for retrieving items with specific citations.