Secondary Sources for Research in European Law

Abstract

When discussing the subject of access to “the secondary literature” in European law, it is desirable to define terms as precisely as possible. I am limiting my observations to those media providing this access on a transnational basis, rather than strictly national bibliographical publications. In actual practice, this is not much of a limitation, since legal bibliography at the national level is only constrained by language, and the subjects treated frequently cross jurisdictional boundaries and concepts. A further, and more applicable, delimiter for “secondary literature” is to journal articles; that is to say, articles and materials appearing in serial publications of varying degrees of frequency; thus, one excludes monographic literature.