International Climate Change Law: Journal Articles

• HeinOnline's Law Journal Library

  Full-text images, searchable collection of over 900 law reviews and journals.

• HeinOnline's Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (IFLP)

  Separate from HeinOnline's Law Journal Library, this database indexes foreign law journals. Searching IFLP can help narrow your research to internationally-focused journals, and it may help you find articles outside of the Law Journal Library's usual coverage. However, not all articles listed here have the full text available on Hein, so you may need to search for article titles separately on Google Scholar or the library catalog.

• LegalTrac

  Indexing for more than 1,400 titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals, plus full-text access to over 100 law reviews.

These journals specialize in international climate change law:

• Carbon & Climate Law Review
• Climate Law 
  • Some articles may be restricted. HeinOnline has full issues from 2010-2017. For articles not available on the journal webpage or HeinOnline, try searching Google and Google Scholar for an open access version. If that doesn't work, use our ILL form to request a copy from another library.

These journals specialize in international environmental law, including discussion of climate change law:

• Review of European Comparative & International Environmental Law (RECIEL)
  • See this virtual issue on International Climate Change Law.
• Transnational Environmental Law

These journals focus specifically on policy:

• Climate Policy
  • Some articles may be restricted. For paywalled articles, try searching Google Scholar for an open access version. If that doesn't work, use our ILL form to request a copy from another library.
• Energy Policy
  • Some articles may be restricted. For paywalled articles, try searching Google Scholar for an open access version. If that doesn't work, use our ILL form to request a copy from another library.

Due to the interdisciplinary nature of climate change law, your research may benefit from articles outside the world of legal periodicals. Try using these resources:

• Google Scholar pulls results from a variety of databases and is often the best start for interdisciplinary research. Note that you may find better results on Google Scholar while on campus or logged into your Lewis & Clark email address via Gmail.
• Academic Search Premier is a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 12,000 periodicals and 4,700 peer-reviewed journals.
• JSTOR is a full-text archive of over 1000 historical academic journals in the arts and sciences.

These databases exclusively focus on environmental studies:

• Environment Complete
• Environmental Studies and Policy

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If you already know the title of an article but aren't sure where to find it:

1. Search the catalog for the article, both by article title and by the journal itself.
2. Search for open access versions of the article via Google Scholar.
3. Search specific databases that may not be fully linked with our catalog (see the list of databases in this guide).
4. After running through these steps, request the article via interlibrary loan or reach out to a librarian.

For more information, refer to the below video or this guide on finding articles.