LibGuides: Legal Resources: Sports Law

Sports Law Resources

These sources are particularly useful for sports law topics and may consulted in addition to Nexis Uni.

Sport Discus with Full-Text
Includes citations to articles related to sports law.
Description: Key database for sport medicine, physical education, and physical therapy. The database does have some items published in the 19th century.
Time Period: 1975-present
Sources: over 2,000 journals
Subject Headings: Education, Health, Mobile (Physical Education and Sports Medicine)
Primary Materials: Journal articles, books, dissertations, conference proceedings
Number of Simultaneous Users: 2-4
ERIC (EBSCOhost)
This database indexes journals in the field education and includes articles related to sports law.
Description: ERIC EBSCOhost is a key database in the field of education, providing access to bibliographic records of journal and non-journal literature. About one third of the content is accessible in full text from within the database.
Time Period: 1966-present
Sources: Indexes more than 650 journals.
Subject Headings: Education, English & Linguistics, Mobile, Music
Primary Materials: Abstracts, Books/e-books, Dissertation and Theses, Grey Literature, Journal Articles, Reference Resources, Report
Sports Medicine & Education Index
This database also includes citations to articles related to sports law.
Description: The Sports Medicine & Education Index is a good database for articles about physical education. Patrons may also want to use Sport Discus.
Time Period: 1970 to present
Sources: Indexes more than 380 journals.
Subject Headings: Education, Health (Sports, Physiology and Physical Education)
Primary Materials: Journal Articles, Magazine Articles

Sport Law Textbooks
These textbooks may discuss sports law cases.
West's Education Law Digest
The digest will help you find cases on a topic. Note: You may want to use the "Descriptive Word Index" from the Supreme Court Digest to find cases on a topic.