Guide

How to Find What You're Looking For

The best way to explore the content on this site is to use the search feature, which provides users with the fullest document browsing experience. The pages for each keyword category are more limited in the information they provide at a glance about each document.

Search

The Explore page offers a full text search across all of the documents, but it also allows users to further narrow down their results by the keywords we have tagged documents with. Keep in mind that these results will only show documents that have been tagged with all of the chosen keywords.

Keywords

The Terminology page explains the keywords employed throughout the OER to help you explore the laws, cases, webinars, teaching modules, and other materials in our resource. The main keywords are broken down into six categories: Legal Concepts, Subjects, Temporal Coverage, Spatial Coverage, Document Type, and Document Category.

• Legal Concepts - the primary legal concept explored by the document
• Subjects - the groups of people being affected by the law in the document
• Temporal Coverage - the historical time period of the document
• Spatial Coverage - the geographical area described in the document
• Document Type - the kind of document
• Document Category - primary source vs. secondary source

Teaching Modules

In addition to our collection of documents, the OER also hosts Teaching Modules created by U.S. Law and Race Initiative faculty  and Mellon Graduate Fellows. These are meant to be research tools for students but are also intended to be used by instructors to add to their own syllabus.